Flake

Tamil Dictionary definitions for Flake

Flake : பனித்துகள், கம்பளித்துண்டு

Flake : கம்பளித்துண்டு,பனித்துகள்,பனித்துகள்,கம்பளித்துண்டு

Flake definition

Noun.

  1. A paling; a hurdle.
  2. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
  3. A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
  4. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish.
  5. A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
  6. A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.

Transitive verb. To form into flakes.

Intransitive verb. To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.