lake /leɪk/noun 9verb 4forms 3phrases 1 noun9 •a big area of water that has land all around itThese 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 •A large amount of liquid.So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline? — 1991 •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.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 •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. •(dialect) A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain. •(dialect) Play; sport; game; fun; glee. •(no longer used) A pit, or ditch. •(no longer used) An offering, sacrifice, gift. •(no longer used) A kind of fine, white linen. verb4 •To subject biological cells to repeated cycles of freezing and thawing until lysis. •(dialect, UK) To 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 •To make lake-red. •(no longer used) To present an offering. formslaked · laking · lakes Phrases with lake go jump in the lakeUsed to tell someone to go away, or that their request will not be met.
