Pronunciation Noun
lake (plural lakes)
- (now chiefly dialectal) A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
- A large, landlocked stretch of water.
- A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake.
- 1991, Robert DeNiro (actor), Backdraft (film):
- So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
- 1991, Robert DeNiro (actor), Backdraft (film):
- (obsolete) A pit, or ditch
- See Thesaurus:lake
lake (plural lakes)
Related terms Verblake (lakes, present participle laking; past and past participle laked)
Nounlake (plural lakes)
- (obsolete) A kind of fine, white linen.
lake (plural lakes)
- 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.
- 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.
- For example, 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.
lake (lakes, present participle laking; past and past participle laked)
- To make lake-red.
Lake
Proper noun
- Surname
- A large village/and/civil parish on the Isle of Wight.
- A settlement in Wilsford cum Lake, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1339).
- An unincorporated community in Fremont County, Idaho.
- An unincorporated community in Laurel County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Ascension Parish, Louisiana.
- An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.
- An unincorporated community in Garfield Township, Clare County.
- A town in Newton County, and.
- A township in St. Louis County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
- An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
- A town in Marinette County, Wisconsin.
- A former town in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, annexed by the city of Milwaukee in 1954.
- A town in Price County, Wisconsin.
- A unisex given name.
- Lake Bell, Lake Speed
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