Meaning of lake | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
2. An offering, sacrifice, gift.
   obsolete
3. A kind of fine, white linen.
   obsolete
4. In 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.
   countable, uncountable
5. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
6. A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid
7. A large amount of liquid.
8. Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
   dialectal
9. 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.
   countable, uncountable
10. A unisex given name.
    countable, uncountable
11. A large amount of liquid
12. A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
    dialectal
13. A placename:
    countable, uncountable
14. A place in England:
    countable, uncountable
15. A large village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight (OS grid ref SZ5983).
    countable, uncountable
16. A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain
17. A pit, or ditch.
    obsolete
18. A settlement in Wilsford cum Lake parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1339).
    countable, uncountable
19. A pit, or ditch
20. A number of places in the United States:
    countable, uncountable
21. An unincorporated community in Fremont County, Idaho.
    countable, uncountable
22. An offering, sacrifice, gift
23. An unincorporated community in Laurel County, Kentucky.
    countable, uncountable
24. An unincorporated community in Ascension Parish, Louisiana.
    countable, uncountable
25. An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.
    countable, uncountable
26. An unincorporated community in Garfield Township, Clare County, Michigan.
    countable, uncountable
27. A town in Newton County and Scott County, Mississippi.
    countable, uncountable
28. An unincorporated community in Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
    countable, uncountable
29. An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia.
    countable, uncountable
30. An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
    countable, uncountable
31. A town in Marinette County, Wisconsin.
    countable, uncountable
32. A former town in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, annexed by the city of Milwaukee in 1954.
    countable, uncountable
33. A town in Price County, Wisconsin.
    countable, uncountable
34. A number of townships, listed under Lake Township.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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 ].”

“a lake of wine”

“So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 Bell, Lake Chambers Speed”

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