Flake vs Relieve - What's the difference?
flake | relieve |
A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, paint, or fish.
(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.
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 in layers
(Ireland, slang) to hit (another person).
(UK) Dogfish.
(Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
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* 2007 , Archie Gerzee, WOW! Tales of a Larrikin Adventurer ,
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(UK, 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.
* English Husbandman
(nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
To ease (a person, person's thoughts etc.) from mental distress; to stop (someone) feeling anxious or worried, to alleviate the distress of.
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To ease (someone, a part of the body etc.) or give relief from physical pain or discomfort.
To alleviate (pain, distress, mental discomfort etc.).
To provide comfort or assistance to (someone in need, especially in poverty).
(obsolete) To lift up; to raise again.
(legal) To free (someone) from debt or legal obligations; to give legal relief to.
To bring military help to (a besieged town); to lift the seige on.
To release (someone) from or of a difficulty, unwanted task, responsibility etc.
(military, job) To free (someone) from their post, task etc. by taking their place.
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* 1927 , (Countee Cullen), From the Dark Tower :
(reflexive) To go to the toilet; to defecate or urinate.
As a noun flake
is flame.As a verb relieve is
to ease (a person, person's thoughts etc) from mental distress; to stop (someone) feeling anxious or worried, to alleviate the distress of.flake
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- There were a few flakes of paint on the floor from when we were painting the walls.
- flakes of dandruff
- She makes pleasant conversation, but she's kind of a flake when it comes time for action.
Verb
- The paint flaked off after only a year.
- He said he'd come and help, but he flaked .
- The line is flaked into the container for easy attachment and deployment.
Derived terms
* flake off * flake outEtymology 2
A name given to dogfish to improve its marketability as a food, perhaps from etymology 1.Noun
(-)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 ’.
page 141,
- The local fish shop sold a bit of flake (shark) but most people were too spoiled to eat shark. The main item on the Kiwi table was still snapper, and there was plenty of them, caught by the Kiwis themselves, so no shortage whatsoever.
page 45,
- Until recently, deep-sea fish were considered to have insignificant levels of mercury but even these now contain higher levels than they used to, so you should also avoid the big fish like tuna, swordfish, and flake (shark) that are highest up the food chain.
Etymology 3
Compare Icelandic flaki''?, ''fleki''?, Danish ''flage'', Dutch ''vlaak .Noun
(en noun)- You shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer them to have straw nor fern under them, but lay them either upon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer.
References
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Verb
(reliev)- This shall not relieve either Party of any obligations.
- The henna should be deeply dyed to make / The skin relieved appear more fairly fair [...].
- The night whose sable breast relieves the stark / White stars is no less lovely being dark