Flanking vs Flaking - What's the difference?
flanking | flaking |
Breaking or tending to break into flakes.
A piece of flaked material.
* 1916 , Allen Jesse Reynolds, ?Wilson Straley, The Archaeological Bulletin (volumes 7-9, page 3)
As verbs the difference between flanking and flaking
is that flanking is present participle of lang=en while flaking is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective flaking is
breaking or tending to break into flakes.As a noun flaking is
a piece of flaked material.flaking
English
Adjective
(-)- All the flaking paint had to be scraped off before repainting; fortunately, it came off easily.
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- In a cornfield on one side flakings of flint are numerous.