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LAKE
lake
(noun) a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land
lake
(noun) any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments
lake
(noun) a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
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.
(obsolete) A pit, or ditch
Usage notes
As with the names of rivers, mounts and mountains, the names of lakes are typically formed by adding the word before or after the unique term: Lake Titicaca or Great Slave Lake. Generally speaking, names formed using adjectives or attributives see lake added to the end, as with Reindeer Lake; lake is usually added before proper names, as with Lake Michigan. This derives from the earlier but now uncommon form lake of ~: for instance, the 19th-century Lake of Annecy is now usually simply Lake Annecy. It frequently occurs, however, that foreign placenames are misunderstood as proper nouns, as with the Chinese Taihu and Qinghai being frequently rendered as Lake Tai and Qinghai Lake.
Synonyms
• See lake
Etymology 2
Noun
lake (plural lakes)
(obsolete) An offering, sacrifice, gift.
(dialectal) Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
Verb
lake (third-person singular simple present lakes, present participle laking, simple past and past participle laked)
(obsolete) To present an offering.
(chiefly, dialectal) To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.
Etymology 3
Noun
lake (plural lakes)
(obsolete) A kind of fine, white linen.
Etymology 4
Noun
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.
Verb
lake (third-person singular simple present lakes, present participle laking, simple past and past participle laked)
To make lake-red.
Anagrams
• Alek, Kale, Leak, ka le, kale, leak
Etymology
Proper noun
Lake
A surname.
A large village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, England.
A settlement in Wilsford cum Lake parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1339).
An unincorporated community in Fremont County, Idaho.
An unincorporated community in Laurel County, Kentucky.
An unincorporated community in Ascension Parish parish, Louisiana.
An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.
An unincorporated community in Garfield Township, Clare County, Michigan.
A town in Newton County and Scott County, Mississippi.
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.
Anagrams
• Alek, Kale, Leak, ka le, kale, leak
Source: Wiktionary
Lake, n. Etym: [F. laque, fr. Per. See Lac.]
Definition: A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.
Lake, n. Etym: [Cf. G. laken.]
Definition: A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Lake, v. i. Etym: [AS. lacan, læcan, to spring, jump, lac play, sport, or fr. Icel. leika to play, sport; both akin to Goth. laikan to dance. sq. root120. Cf. Knowledge.]
Definition: To play; to sport. [Prov. Eng.]
Lake, n. Etym: [AS. lac, L. lacus; akin to AS. lagu lake, sea, Icel. lögr; OIr. loch; cf. Gr. Loch, Lough.]
Definition: A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.
Note: Lakes are for the most part of fresh water; the salt lakes, like the Great Salt Lake of Utah, have usually no outlet to the ocean. Lake dwellers (Ethnol.), people of a prehistoric race, or races, which inhabited different parts of Europe. Their dwellings were built on piles in lakes, a short distance from the shore. Their relics are common in the lakes of Switzerland.
– Lake dwellings (Archæol.), dwellings built over a lake, sometimes on piles, and sometimes on rude foundations kept in place by piles; specifically, such dwellings of prehistoric times. Lake dwellings are still used by many savage tribes. Called also lacustrine dwellings. See Crannog.
– Lake fly (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of dipterous flies of the genus Chironomus. In form they resemble mosquitoes, but they do not bite. The larvæ live in lakes.
– Lake herring (Zoöl.), the cisco (Coregonus Artedii).
– Lake poets, Lake school, a collective name originally applied in contempt, but now in honor, to Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth, who lived in the lake country of Cumberland, England, Lamb and a few others were classed with these by hostile critics. Called also lakers and lakists.
– Lake sturgeon (Zoöl.), a sturgeon (Acipenser rubicundus), of moderate size, found in the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. It is used as food.
– Lake trout (Zoöl.), any one of several species of trout and salmon; in Europe, esp. Salmo fario; in the United States, esp. Salvelinus namaycush of the Great Lakes, and of various lakes in New York, Eastern Maine, and Canada. A large variety of brook trout (S. fontinalis), inhabiting many lakes in New England, is also called lake trout. See Namaycush.
– Lake whitefish. (Zoöl.) See Whitefish.
– Lake whiting (Zoöl.), an American whitefish (Coregonus Labradoricus), found in many lakes in the Northern United States and Canada. It is more slender than the common whitefish.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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