lake
IPA: ɫˈeɪk
noun
- A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
- A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
- (obsolete) A pit, or ditch.
- (obsolete) An offering, sacrifice, gift.
- (dialectal) Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
- (obsolete) A kind of fine, white linen.
- In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermilion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
- In the composition of colors for use in products intended for human consumption, made by extending on a substratum of alumina, a salt prepared from one of the certified water-soluble straight colors.
- A surname.
- A unisex given name.
- A placename:
- A place in England:
- A large village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight (OS grid ref SZ5983).
- A settlement in Wilsford cum Lake parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1339).
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Fremont County, Idaho.
- An unincorporated community in Laurel County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Ascension Parish, Louisiana.
- An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.
- An unincorporated community in Garfield Township, Clare County, Michigan.
- A town in Newton County and Scott County, Mississippi.
- An unincorporated community in Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
- An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
- A town in Marinette County, Wisconsin.
- A former town in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, annexed by the city of Milwaukee in 1954.
- A town in Price County, Wisconsin.
- A number of townships, listed under Lake Township.
verb
- (obsolete) To present an offering.
- (dialectal, Northern, UK) To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.
- Subject biological cells to repeated cycles of freezing and thawing until lysis.
- To make lake-red.
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Examples of "lake" in Sentences
- The channel to tghe main lake is only about a 1/2 mile east.
- I take note of the fact that the shore of a certain lake is still – as if you were living – as lovely as before.
- Beyond lake Winipic, the canoes have to pass along many rapids, and through several small lakes, called _Cedar lake_, _Mud lake_, and
- The warmer the lake is at the end of the year as winter comes in, the more snowfall we're going to get because we're in the lake effects (unintelligible) snow area.
- Mon. 7/19/10 5: 58am 27 LCD bears hit by remotecontrol cars in 2009 good morning, you-all ny! here is the remainder of a city-ditcher's blathering: warbly lake of-cagean-glass silence-breaking reflection inhale-a-bug, 5 calories d0g's lake_ g0d goggle'd
- She points out that there is some irony in living in a "Lake House" without a lake and even though, as I pedantically remind her, the word lake is Anglo-Saxon for "running stream," which we do have, and not a standing body of water, which we don't, her logic does not escape me.
- Two explanations are given of the origin of the myth of the Kinabalu Lake -- one is that in the district, where it was supposed to exist, extensive floods do take place in very wet seasons, giving it the appearance of a lake, and, I believe there are many similar instances in Dutch Borneo, where a tract of country liable to be heavily flooded has been dignified with the name of _Danau_, which is Malay for _lake_, so that the mistake of the European cartographers is a pardonable one.
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