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flake
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /fle?k/
- Hyphenation: flake
- Rhymes: -e?k
Etymology 1
From Middle English flake (“a flake of snow”), from Old English flacca and/or Old Norse flak (“loose or torn piece”) (compare Old Norse flakna (“to flake or chip”)), from Proto-Germanic *flak? (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?- (“flat, broad, plain”). Cognate with Norwegian flak (“slice, sliver”, literally “piece torn off”), Swedish flak (“a thin slice”), Danish flage (“flake”), German Flocke (“flake”), Dutch vlak (“smooth surface, plain”) and vlok (“flake”), Latin plaga (“flat surface, district, region”). Doublet of plage.
Noun
flake (plural flakes)
- A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
- 1971, Leonard Cohen, "Famous Blue Raincoat":
- And you treated my woman to a flake of your life. And when she came back she was nobody's wife.
- 1971, Leonard Cohen, "Famous Blue Raincoat":
- A scale of a fish or similar animal
- (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
- (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
- A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
- A flat turn or tier of rope.
- 1634, Nathaniel Boteler, Boteler's Dialogues:
- Admiral: What mean you by flakes?
- Captain: They are only those several circles or rounds of the roapes or cables, that are quoiled up round.
- 1944, Clifford W. Ashley, The Ashley Book of Knots, Doubleday, pages 516-517:
- A flake is the sailor's term for a turn in an ordinary coil, or for a complete tier in a flat coil, as a French or Flemish flake. The current dictionary form of the word is fake, a word that I have never heard used with this meaning.
- A Flemish flake is a spiral coil of one layer only.
- 1634, Nathaniel Boteler, Boteler's Dialogues:
- (US, law enforcement, slang) A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
- 1973, Knapp Commission, ?New York, The Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption (page 83)
- When police decided to score gamblers, they would most often flake people with gambling slips, then demand $25 or $50 for not arresting them. Other times, they would simply threaten a flake and demand money.
- 1973, Knapp Commission, ?New York, The Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption (page 83)
Derived terms
- cornflake
- snowflake
Translations
Verb
flake (third-person singular simple present flakes, present participle flaking, simple past and past participle flaked)
- To break or chip off in a flake.
- (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
- (technical) To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
- (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
- (US, law enforcement, slang) To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
- 1973, Knapp Commission, ?New York, The Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption (page 83)
- When police decided to score gamblers, they would most often flake people with gambling slips, then demand $25 or $50 for not arresting them. Other times, they would simply threaten a flake and demand money.
- 1973, Knapp Commission, ?New York, The Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption (page 83)
Derived terms
- beflake
- flake off
- flake out
Translations
Etymology 2
A name given to dogfish to improve its marketability as a food, perhaps from etymology 1.
Noun
flake (uncountable)
- (Britain) Dogfish.
- (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
- 1999, R. Shotton, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Case studies of the management of elasmobranch fisheries, Part 1, page 746,
- Larger shark received about 10%/kg less than those in the 4-6 kg range. Most of the Victorian landed product is wholesaled as carcasses on the Melbourne Fish Market where it is sold to fish and chip shops, the retail sector and through restaurants as ‘flake’.
- 1999, R. Shotton, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Case studies of the management of elasmobranch fisheries, Part 1, page 746,
Etymology 3
Compare Icelandic flaki?, fleki?, Danish flage, Dutch vlaak.
Noun
flake (plural flakes)
- (Britain, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
- A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
- (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
- (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”)
- 1898, Frank T. Bullen, The Cruise of the Cachalot: The Story of a New Bedford Whaler
- Flake after flake ran out of the tubs, until we were compelled to hand the end of our line to the second mate to splice his own on to.
- 1898, Frank T. Bullen, The Cruise of the Cachalot: The Story of a New Bedford Whaler
References
- flake in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- fleak
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film
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?lm/, [f??m]
- Rhymes: -?lm
- (North East England, Ireland) IPA(key): [?f?lm?], [?f?l?m]
Etymology
From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-Germanic *filminj? (“thin skin, membrane”) (compare Proto-Germanic *felma- (“skin, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”). Cognate with Old Frisian filmene (“thin skin, human skin”), Dutch vel (“sheet, skin”), German Fell (“skin, hide, fur”), Swedish fjäll (“fur blanket, cloth, scale”), Norwegian fille (“rag, cloth”), Lithuanian pl?v? (“membrane, scab”), Russian ?????? (plevá, “membrane”), Ancient Greek ????? (pélma, “sole of the foot”). More at fell. Sense of a thin coat of something is 1577, extended by 1845 to the coating of chemical gel on photographic plates. By 1895 this also meant the coating plus the paper or celluloid.
Noun
film (countable and uncountable, plural films)
- A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
- (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
- A movie.
- (film, uncountable) Cinema; movies as a group.
- A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
Synonyms
- (motion picture): movie
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Verb
film (third-person singular simple present films, present participle filming, simple past and past participle filmed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.
- (transitive) To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.
Translations
Anagrams
- MILF, milf
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch film, from English film, or borrowed from English film.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?lm/
Noun
film (plural films)
- film
Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French film, from English film.
Noun
film m (indefinite plural filma, definite singular filmi, definite plural filmat)
- film
- movie
Declension
Azerbaijani
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [film]
Noun
film (definite accusative filmi, plural filml?r)
- film, movie
Declension
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from English film.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?film/
Noun
film m (plural films)
- film (a movie)
- Synonym: pel·lícula
Related terms
- filmar
- fílmic
Further reading
- “film” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Crimean Tatar
Etymology
Borrowed from English film.
Noun
film
- film (clarification of this definition is needed)
Declension
References
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?[2], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?lm/
Noun
film m inan
- (photography) film
- movie, film, motion picture
Declension
Derived terms
- filmovat
- filma?
Further reading
- film in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- film in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /film/, [?film]
- Rhymes: -ilm
Noun
film c (singular definite filmen, plural indefinite film)
- a movie, a film, motion picture
- film; a thin layer
- plural indefinite of film
Inflection
Derived terms
- filme
- filmning
- filmfotograf
- filmhold
- filmproduktion
- filmskole
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?l?m/, /f?lm/
- Rhymes: -?lm, -?l?m
Noun
film m (plural films, diminutive filmpje n)
- film, movie
Derived terms
- filmproducent
- filmregisseur
- speelfilm
- tekenfilm
- verfilmen
Estonian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
film (genitive filmi, partitive filmi)
- movie
Declension
Derived terms
- filmindus
- filmilint
- värvifilm
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English film.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /film/
Noun
film m (plural films)
- movie, film
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Albanian: film
- ? Romanian: film
- ? Turkish: film
Further reading
- “film” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from English film.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?film]
- Hyphenation: film
- Rhymes: -ilm
Noun
film (plural filmek)
- (photography) film (a medium used to capture images in a camera)
- film, movie, motion picture, picture (a recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion)
- film, cinematic art, cinema, cinematography (the art of making films and movies)
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- film in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Indonesian
Etymology
From earlier pilem, from Dutch film, from English film.
Pronunciation
- (standard) IPA(key): [?f?lm]
- (Betawi) IPA(key): /?f?l(?)m/, /?pel?m/
Noun
film (first-person possessive filmku, second-person possessive filmmu, third-person possessive filmnya)
- film,
- a thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
- (photography) a medium used to capture images in a camera.
- a movie, a motion picture, a recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion.
Alternative forms
- filem (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)
Affixed terms
Further reading
- “film” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
Etymology
From English film.
Noun
film m (invariable)
- film, movie
- Synonym: pellicola
Derived terms
See also
- cinema
Further reading
- film in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from English film.
Noun
film m (plural films)
- (Jersey) movie, film
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
film m (definite singular filmen, indefinite plural filmer, definite plural filmene)
- a film (for taking photographs in a camera)
- a film (thin material, layer or coating)
- a film, movie (cinematic production)
Derived terms
Related terms
- filme
Verb
film
- imperative of filme
References
- “film” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
film m (definite singular filmen, indefinite plural filmar, definite plural filmane)
- a film (for taking photographs in a camera)
- a film (thin material, layer or coating)
- a film, movie (cinematic production)
Derived terms
References
- “film” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English film.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?ilm/
Noun
film m inan (diminutive filmik)
- film, movie, motion picture
- film (medium used to capture images in a camera)
Declension
Derived terms
- (nouns) filmografia, filmowiec
- (adjectives) filmowy, filmograficzny
Further reading
- film in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Noun
film m (plural filmes)
- Superseded spelling of filme.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French film, German Film, from English film.
Noun
film n (plural filme)
- movie, film
Declension
References
- Romanian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From English film, from Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-Germanic *filminj? (“thin skin, membrane”), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?filim/
Noun
film m (genitive singular film, plural filmichean)
- film, movie
Mutation
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from English film.
Noun
f?lm m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- film (photography)
- film (motion picture)
Declension
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fi?m/
Noun
film m (genitive singular filmu, nominative plural filmy, genitive plural filmov, declension pattern of dub)
- photographic film
- movie, motion picture
Declension
Derived terms
- filmár
- filmova?
- filmový
- filmovo
- filmík
Further reading
- film in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
Spanish
Etymology
From English film.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?film/, [?film]
Noun
film m (plural films)
- film, motion picture
Further reading
- “film” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
film c
- film; a thin layer
- film; medium used to capture images in a camera
- a movie
Declension
Related terms
References
- film in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from French film, from English film.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /film/
- IPA(key): /filim/ (colloquial)
Noun
film (definite accusative filmi, plural filmler)
- a medium used to capture images in a camera
- a movie
Declension
Uzbek
Etymology
From Russian ????? (fil?m), from English film.
Noun
film (plural filmlar)
- film, movie, motion picture
- Synonyms: kino, kinofilm, kartina
Declension
Related terms
- filmoskop
- filmoteka
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