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| flake | |
| 1. sost. fiocco | |
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| flake | |
| 1. subst. 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. subst. A scale of a fish or similar animal | |
| 3. subst. (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone. | |
| 4. subst. (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. subst. 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. subst. (UK) Dogfish. | |
| 11. subst. (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark. | |
| 12. subst. (dialect) A paling; a hurdle. | |
| 13. subst. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things. | |
| 14. subst. (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc. | |
| 15. subst. (nautical) (alt form, fake, (turn or coil of cable or hawser)) | |
| italiano > inglese | |
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| fiocco | |
| 1. subst. bow, ribbon, knot | |
| 2. subst. flock, tuft | |
| 3. subst. flake, snowflake | |
| 4. subst. flake (of food) | |
| 5. subst. (nautical) jib | |
| 6. subst. (nautical) drifter (a very light sail used when no wind available) | |
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