| anglais > français | |
| flake | |
| 1. n. Flocon. | |
| 2. n. Flocon de neige. | |
| 3. n. (Informel) Lâche, personne peu fiable. | |
| anglais > anglais | |
| flake | |
| 1. n. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything |  |
| There were a few flakes of paint on the floor from when we were painting the walls. |  |
| flakes of dandruff |  |
| 2. n. A scale of a fish or similar animal |  |
| 3. n. (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone. |  |
| 4. n. (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living. |  |
| She makes pleasant conversation, but she's kind of a flake when it comes time for action. |  |
| 5. n. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes. |  |
| 6. v. To break or chip off in a flake. |  |
| The paint flaked off after only a year. |  |
| 7. v. (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through. |  |
| He said he'd come and help, but he flaked. |  |
| 8. v. (technical) To store an item such as rope in layers |  |
| The line is flaked into the container for easy attachment and deployment. |  |
| 9. v. (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person). |  |
| 10. n. (UK) Dogfish. |  |
| 11. n. (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark. |  |
| 12. n. (dialect) A paling; a hurdle. |  |
| 13. n. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things. |  |
| 14. n. (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc. |  |
| 15. n. (nautical) (alt form, fake, (turn or coil of cable or hawser)) |  |
| français > anglais | |
| flocon | |
| 1. n-m. a flock (as of wool) |  |
| 2. n-m. a snowflake, a small mass of falling snow |  |
| 3. n-m. a flake of cereal, as of cornflakes |  |