lake

plural lakes

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 ].

   2015 July 31, “Morphologically Cryptic Amphipod Species Are “Ecological Clones” at Regional but Not at Local Scale: A Case Study of Four Niphargus Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

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   Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.

   1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

2. A large amount of liquid.

   a lake of wine

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   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

   Synonyms: mountain

3. dialectalA small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
4. obsoleteA pit, or ditch.

plural lakes · alternative laik

1. obsoleteAn offering, sacrifice, gift.
2. dialectalPlay; sport; game; fun; glee.

present singular third person lakes · participle present laking · participle past laked · past laked · alternative laik

1. obsoleteTo present an offering.
2. NorthernUKdialectalTo leap, jump, exert oneself; to play.

   The agent was of course the Boggart, and it soon became their sport (which they called laking with Boggart) to put the shoe-horn into the hole and have it shot back at them.

   1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 307

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

plural lakes

1. obsoleteA kind of fine, white linen.

plural lakes

1. countableuncountableIn 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.

   1954 August, Basil M. Bazley, “Three Scottish Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 534

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   Jeremiah found himself indoors, perfecting his Draftsmanship, bending all day over the work-table, grinding and mixing his own Inks,— siftings and splashes ev'rywhere of King's Yellow, Azure, red Orpiment, Indian lake, Verdigris, Indigo, and Umber.

   1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 24, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part One: Latitudes and Departures, page 242

   Synonyms: lac

2. countableuncountableIn 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.

present singular third person lakes · participle present laking · participle past laked · past laked

1. To make lake-red.

plural Lakes

1. countableuncountableA surname.
2. countableuncountableA unisex given name.

   Lake Bell, Lake Chambers Speed

3. A placename:
   1. countableuncountableA large village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight (OS grid ref SZ5983).
   2. countableuncountableA settlement in Wilsford cum Lake parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1339).
   3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Fremont County, Idaho.
   4. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Laurel County, Kentucky.
   5. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Ascension Parish, Louisiana.
   6. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.
   7. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Garfield Township, Clare County, Michigan.
   8. countableuncountableA town in Newton County and Scott County, Mississippi.
   9. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
   10. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia.
   11. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
   12. countableuncountableA town in Marinette County, Wisconsin.
   13. countableuncountableA former town in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, annexed by the city of Milwaukee in 1954.
   14. countableuncountableA town in Price County, Wisconsin.
   15. countableuncountableA number of townships, listed under Lake Township.