Definition of "flake" []

• A flat thin piece or layer; a chip. (noun)
• Archaeology A stone fragment removed from a core or from another flake by percussion or pressure, serving as a preform or as a tool or blade itself. (noun)
• A small piece; a bit. (noun)
• A small crystalline bit of snow. (noun)
• Slang A somewhat eccentric person; an oddball. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The thin flake of carbon, the duo created in 2004, just as thick as an atom is exceptionally strong and it conducts electricity like copper."
• "What part of ditz, airhead, flake is not being understood?"
• "And in the black, black silence of the country night, "the sweep of easy wind and downy flake" is deafeningly beautiful."