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Lakes vs Slakes - What's the difference?

lakes | slakes |

As verbs the difference between lakes and slakes

is that lakes is third-person singular of lake while slakes is third-person singular of slake.

As a proper noun Lakes

is the Lake District is also known as the Lakes or Lakeland. It is a rural area in North West England.

As a noun lakes

is plural of lang=en.

lakes

English

(Lake District)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (pluralonly)The Lake District is also known as the Lakes or Lakeland. It is a rural area in North West England.

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    slakes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (slake)

    • slake

    English

    Verb

    (slak)
  • *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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    • Derived terms

    * slaked * slake trough

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