A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything / A scale of a fish or similar animal / (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.

To break or chip off in a flake. / (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through. / (technical) To store an item such as rope or sail in layers

plural of Flake

A surname.

plural of snow-flake

Alternative spelling of snowflake

(intransitive, informal) To fall asleep from exhaustion. / (intransitive, informal) To flake or be flaky: to prove unreliable; to abandon or desert.

A breakfast cereal made from toasted flakes of maize.

plural of rye flake

(chiefly in the plural) A rye groat that is cut, cooked and rolled into a flake, used as a breakfast cereal.