lake

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

lakes

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

lake

past (v2)

laked

past participle (v3)

laked

present participle

laking

3rd person singular

lakes

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.

   • These included other Niphargus species from deep cave lakes and coastal anchihaline caves [23 ] and Gammarus and Echinogammarus amphipods that live only in permanently watered streams [21 ,24 ].

2. 2.A large amount of liquid.

   • So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?

3. 3.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.

   • The colour scheme of the North British Railway, dark gamboge for the engines and lake for the coaches, looked very smart when new and clean, but these shades did not possess good wearing qualities.

4. 4.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.

   • The name of a lake prepared by extending the aluminum salt prepared from FD&C Blue No. 1 upon the substratum would be FD&C Blue No. 1--Aluminum Lake.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To subject biological cells to repeated cycles of freezing and thawing until lysis.

2. 2.To make lake-red.

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