flakes
Because it is a word with a single syllable, flakes is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions offlakes
- Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
- A trick; a swindle.
- A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
- One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
- A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
Example: "There were a few flakes of paint on the floor from when we were painting the walls."
- A scale of a fish or similar animal
- A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
- A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
Example: "She makes pleasant conversation, but she's kind of a flake when it comes time for action."
- A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
- A flat turn or tier of rope.
- To break or chip off in a flake.
Example: "The paint flaked off after only a year."
- To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
Example: "He said he'd come and help, but he flaked."
- To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
Example: "The line is flaked into the container for easy attachment and deployment."
- To hit (another person).
- A paling; a hurdle.
- A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
- A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
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