flaking
present participle offlake
| 单词 | flaking |
| 释义 | flaking present participle offlake flake verb[I] uk/fleɪk/us/fleɪk/to come off asurfaceinsmall,thinpieces: Patches ofskinarestartingto flakeoff. Tearing and breaking into pieces
Phrasal verbflake out Examplesofflakingflaking In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Basicflakingprocedure and simple spatial relations are sufficient. From theCambridge English Corpus The rendering on the walls isflakingoff, the weary roofbeams are buckling under the weight of the roofs, the wooden bridges are worn out. From theCambridge English Corpus Bifacial points are pointed tools shaped from large flake blanks by collateral bifacial percussion and pressureflaking. From theCambridge English Corpus It is also an essential trait for the cereal processing industry for malting, milling andflaking. From theCambridge English Corpus Whileflakingthe artifact, the knapper has only one point of view. From theCambridge English Corpus Application of a simpleflakingprocedure, without any image manipulation, could not have produced the kinds of three-dimensional symmetries evident on these artifacts. From theCambridge English Corpus It is distinguished from its neighbors, lined up tightly but crookedly on either side of a dirt track, by a swath offlakingred paint. From theCambridge English Corpus It is even possible for the iterative application of a specificflakingprocedure to produce a final core with a regular shape, completely unintended. From theCambridge English Corpus Desquamation was graded as dryness of skin, moderateflaking, severeflakingor patchy moist desquamation. From theCambridge English Corpus In sum, what we know of late handaxes indicates that aflakingstrategy alone (biomechanics) could not have produced these artifacts. From theCambridge English Corpus Effectiveflakingis a specialized form of perception-though-action that allows for the discovery and stabilization of larger scale patterns (strategies) in necessarily variable reduction processes. From theCambridge English Corpus Podocarpus oleifolius was the only conifer and the only species withflakingbark. From theCambridge English Corpus The ventral pathway associated with object identification and shape recognition is minimally activated, implying that shape is not a significant component of the basicflakingtask. From theCambridge English Corpus Flakingleaded paint appears to be the cause of this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 But, with the extension of the rolling andflakingprocesses to wheat, it could become increasingly serious as time goes on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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