1. A small fragment of something broken off from the whole
   "a flake of rock caught him in the eye";
   - bit, chip, fleck, scrap
    
2. A crystal of snow
   "Each flake has a unique crystalline structure";
   - snowflake
    
3. [N. Amer, informal] A person with an unusual or odd personality
   "they're a bunch of flakes, but quite nice really";
   - eccentric, oddball [informal], geek [informal], dag [Austral, NZ, informal]

1. Come off in flakes or thin small pieces
   "The paint in my house is flaking off";
   - peel off, peel, flake off
    
2. Form into flakes
   "The substances started to flake"
    
3. Cover with flakes or as if with flakes
   "The snow flaked the trees with a delicate white coating"

Derived forms: flaked, flakes, flaking

Type of: actor, break, break away, break off, chip, chip off, come off, cover, crystal, doer, form, fragment, snap off, worker

Part of: snow, snowfall

Encyclopedia: Flake, Ontario