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
- Fish swim in the lakes and rivers.
- The lake is the origin of the Lehigh River.
- The lake is the source of the Robson River.
- The lake begins the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River.
- The river originates at the outflow of Lake Galichskoye.
- The lake is the principle watershed for the Gananoque River.
- The Cranberry River joins the lake in the middle of the village.
- The article states that the inhabitants named the river and the lake.
- The primary outflow is a small stream at the southern end of the lake.
- Something on eutrophication of rivers, lakes and seas would be appropriate.
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