flake
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a crystal of snow
Types & categories
- crystal hypernym
Parts & wholes
Sense 2 verb
form into flakes
The substances started to flake
Types & categories
- form hypernym
Sense 3 noun
a person with an unusual or odd personality
Types & categories
- unusual person hypernym
- screwball hyponym
- nutter hyponym
Sense 4 verb
cover with flakes or as if with flakes
Types & categories
- cover hypernym
Sense 5 noun
a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
a bit of rock caught him in the eye
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 6 verb
come off in flakes or thin small pieces
The paint in my house is peeling off
Types & categories
- chip hypernym
Related & opposite
- chip derivation
- desquamation derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | snow |
| 1 | substance holonym | Parts & wholes | snow |
| 1 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | water |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | crystal |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | form |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | unusual person |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | screwball |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | nutter |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | cover |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | knap |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | chip |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | flake off |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | chip |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | flaky |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | fragment |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | matchwood |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | scurf |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | scurf |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | sliver |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | chip |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | desquamation |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | chip |