Lake vs Slake - What's the difference?
lake | slake |
A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
A large, landlocked stretch of water.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake . I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
A large amount of liquid; as , a wine lake.
* 1991 , (Robert DeNiro) (actor), :
(obsolete) To present an offering.
(chiefly, dialectal) To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.
In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
To make lake-red.
(obsolete) To play; to sport.
*Sir (c.1569-1626)
*:When the body's strongest sinews slake .
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*:wherfor the quene waxed wroth with sir Launcelot / and vpon a day she called sir launcelot vnto her chamber and saide thus / Sir launcelot I see and fele dayly that thy loue begynneth to slake / for thou hast no Ioye to be in my presence / but euer thou arte oute of thys Courte
To go out; to become extinct.
*(Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
*:His flame did slake .
(label) To satisfy (thirst, or other desires); to quench; to extinguish.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:slake the heavenly fire
(label) To cool (something) with water or another liquid.
*1961 , (Lawrence Durrell), , p.14:
*:Notes for landscape tones. Long sequences of tempera. Light filtered through the essence of lemons. An air full of brick-dust - sweet smelling brick dust and the odour of hot pavements slaked with water.
(label) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
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(label) To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
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As a noun lake
is , valley.As a verb slake is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Despite their similarity in form and meaning, (etyl) lake is not related to (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before'' or ''after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?