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lake

See also: Lake, Lãke, lakë, lakę, and łąkę

lake - English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) enPR: lāk, IPA: /leɪk/

Noun

lake (plural lakes)

  1. A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
  2. A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake.
  3. (now chiefly dialectal) A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
  4. (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. There are exceptions to this generalization, however, including notably the names of the individual Finger Lakes (e.g. Oneida Lake, Seneca Lake, Cayuga Lake). It frequently occurs, however, that foreign placenames are misunderstood as proper nouns, as with the Chinese Taihu (“Great Lake”) and Qinghai (“Blue Sea”) being frequently rendered as Lake Tai and Qinghai Lake.

Synonyms

  • See lake

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

lake (plural lakes)

  1. (obsolete) An offering, sacrifice, gift.
  2. (dialectal) Play; sport; game; fun; glee.

Verb

lake (third-person singular simple present lakes, present participle laking, simple past and past participle laked)

  1. (obsolete) To present an offering.
  2. (chiefly dialectal) To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.

Noun

lake (plural lakes)

  1. (obsolete) A kind of fine, white linen.

Noun

lake (plural lakes)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
    • 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.

Derived terms

Translations

  • Arabic: لَكّ‎ m (lakk)
  • Bulgarian: светлочервен лак m (svetločerven lak)
  • Catalan: laca (ca) f
  • Finnish: lakka (fi)
  • French: laque (fr) f
  • German: Färberlack m
  • Greek: λάκη f (láki)
  • Hebrew: לכה‎ (he) f (lakah)
  • Italian: lacca (it) f
  • Japanese: ニス (ja) (nisu), 漆 (ja) (うるし, urushi)
  • Korean: 래커 (raekeo)
  • Macedonian: лак m (lak)
  • Norwegian: (please verify) fargestoff n
  • Polish: lakier (pl) m
  • Portuguese: laca (pt) f
  • Russian: лак (ru) m (lak)
  • Spanish: laca (es) f
  • Swahili: ziwa (sw)
  • Thai: ครั่ง (khràng)

Verb

lake (third-person singular simple present lakes, present participle laking, simple past and past participle laked)

  1. To make lake-red.

Anagrams

lake - Dutch

Verb

lake

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of laken

Anagrams

lake - Mauritian Creole

Noun

lake

  1. tail
  2. queue

lake - Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

lake m (definite singular laken, indefinite plural laker, definite plural lakene)

  1. (preservative) pickle, brine

Noun

lake m (definite singular laken, indefinite plural laker, definite plural lakene)

  1. (fish) burbot, eelpout (species Lota lota)

Verb

lake

  1. to pickle, put in brine

lake - Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

lake m (definite singular laken, indefinite plural lakar, definite plural lakane)

  1. (preservative) pickle, brine

Noun

lake m (definite singular laken, indefinite plural lakar, definite plural lakane)

  1. (fish) burbot, eelpout (species Lota lota)

Verb

lake

  1. to pickle, put in brine

lake - Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

lake

  1. inflection of lak:
    1. masculine accusative plural
    2. feminine genitive singular
    3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

lake - Seychellois Creole

Noun

lake

  1. tail
  2. queue

lake - Swahili

Adjective

lake

  1. Ji class inflected form of -ake.

lake - Swedish

Noun

lake c

  1. brine

Declension

Declension of lake 

Noun

lake c

  1. burbot (Lota lota spp.)

Declension

Declension of lake 

Anagrams

lake - Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈla.ce/
  • Hyphenation: la‧ke

Adjective

lake

  1. Polished with lacquer.

Declension

present tense
positive, declarative positive, interrogative negative, declarative negative, interrogative
ben (I am) lakeyim lake miyim? lake değilim lake değil miyim?
sen (you are) lakesin lake misin? lake değilsin lake değil misin?
o (he/she/it is) lake / lakedir lake mi? lake değil lake değil mi?
biz (we are) lakeyiz lake miyiz? lake değiliz lake değil miyiz?
siz (you are) lakesiniz lake misiniz? lake değilsiniz lake değil misiniz?
onlar (they are) lake(ler) lake(ler) mi? lake değil(ler) lake değiller mi?
past tense
positive, declarative positive, interrogative negative, declarative negative, interrogative
ben (I was) lakeydim lake miydim? lake değildim lake değil miydim?
sen (you were) lakeydin lake miydin? lake değildin lake değil miydin?
o (he/she/it was) lakeydi lake miydi? lake değildi lake değil miydi?
biz (we were) lakeydik lake miydik? lake değildik lake değil miydik?
siz (you were) lakeydiniz lake miydiniz? lake değildiniz lake değil miydiniz?
onlar (they were) lakeydiler lake miydiler? lake değildi(ler) / değillerdi lake değil miydiler?
indirect past
positive, declarative positive, interrogative negative, declarative negative, interrogative
ben (I was) lakeymişim lake miymişim? lake değilmişim lake değil miymişim?
sen (you were) lakeymişsin lake miymişsin? lake değilmişsin lake değil miymişsin?
o (he/she/it was) lakeymiş lake miymiş? lake değilmiş lake değil miymiş?
biz (we were) lakeymişiz lake miymişiz? lake değilmişiz lake değil miymişiz?
siz (you were) lakeymişsiniz lake miymişsiniz? lake değilmişsiniz lake değil miymişsiniz?
onlar (they were) lakeymişler lake miymişler? lake değilmiş(ler) / değillermiş lake değil miymişler?
conditional
positive, declarative positive, interrogative negative, declarative negative, interrogative
ben (if I) lakeysem lake miysem? lake değilsem lake değil miysem?
sen (if you) lakeysen lake miysen? lake değilsen lake değil miysen?
o (if he/she/it) lakeyse lake miyse? lake değilse lake değil miyse?
biz (if we) lakeysek lake miysek? lake değilsek lake değil miysek?
siz (if you) lakeyseniz lake miyseniz? lake değilseniz lake değil miyseniz?
onlar (if they) lakeyseler lake miyseler? lake değilseler / değillerse lake değil miyseler?
Meaning and Definition of lake
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