1. lake(n = noun.object) - a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land;
is a kind of body of water, water
has parts: floor, inlet, recess
has particulars: artificial lake, man-made lake, reservoir, bayou, lagoon, laguna, lagune, loch, lough, oxbow lake, pond, pool, tarn, balaton, lake balaton, plattensee, canandaigua lake, lake canandaigua, caspian, caspian sea, cayuga lake, lake cayuga, baikal, baykal, lake baikal, lake baykal, lake chelan, coeur d'alene lake, lake tahoe, bodensee, constance, lake constance, dead sea, eyre, lake eyre, great salt lake, great slave lake, ijsselmeer, keuka lake, lake keuka, kivu, lake kivu, lake albert, lake albert nyanza, mobuto lake, aral sea, lake aral, chad, lake chad, champlain, lake champlain, lake edward, erie, lake erie, lake geneva, lake leman, huron, lake huron, ilmen, lake ilmen, ladoga, lake ladoga, lake michigan, michigan, lake nasser, nasser, lake malawi, lake nyasa, lake onega, onega, lake ontario, ontario, lake saint clair, lake st. clair, lake superior, superior, lake tana, lake tsana, lake tanganyika, tanganyika, daryacheh-ye orumiyeh, lake urmia, urmia, lake vanern, vanern, lake victoria, victoria nyanza, lake okeechobee, okeechobee, poyang, salton sea, lake seneca, seneca lake, lake winnipeg, winnipeg
2. lake(n = noun.substance) - a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal;
is a kind of pigment
3. lake(n = noun.substance) - any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments;
is a kind of pigment
A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc. [1913 Webster]
A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
To play; to sport. [1913 Webster]
A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area. [1913 Webster]
" Lakes are for the most part of fresh water; the salt lakes, like the Great Salt Lake of Utah, have usually no outlet to the ocean." [1913 Webster]
lake, n. a large body of water surrounded by land.
Idiom:
the Great Lakes the Lakes Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario, along the boundary of the US and Canada. Lake District (or the Lakes) the region of the English lakes in Cumbria. lake-dweller a prehistoric inhabitant of lake-dwellings. lake-dwellings prehistoric huts built on piles driven into the bed or shore of a lake. Lake Poets Coleridge, Southey, and Wordsworth, who lived in and were inspired by the Lake District.
Derivative:
lakeless adj. lakelet n.
lake, n.
1 a reddish colouring orig. made from lac (crimson lake).
2 a complex formed by the action of dye and mordants applied to fabric to fix colour.
3 any insoluble product of a soluble dye and mordant.
Etymology:
var. of LAC(1)
N gulf, lake, land covered with water, gulf, gulph, bay, inlet, bight, estuary, arm of the sea, bayou, fiord, armlet, frith, firth, ostiary, mouth, lagune, lagoon, indraught, cove, creek, natural harbor, roads, strait, narrows, Euripus, sound, belt, gut, kyles, continental slope, continental shelf, lake, loch, lough, mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool, lin, puddle, slab, well, artesian well, standing water, dead water, sheet of water, fish pond, mill pond, ditch, dike, dyke, dam, reservoir, alberca, barachois, hog wallow, lacustrine, gulf, lake, land covered with water, gulf, gulph, bay, inlet, bight, estuary, arm of the sea, bayou, fiord, armlet, frith, firth, ostiary, mouth, lagune, lagoon, indraught, cove, creek, natural harbor, roads, strait, narrows, Euripus, sound, belt, gut, kyles, continental slope, continental shelf, lake, loch, lough, mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool, lin, puddle, slab, well, artesian well, standing water, dead water, sheet of water, fish pond, mill pond, ditch, dike, dyke, dam, reservoir, alberca, barachois, hog wallow, lacustrine.
N redness, red, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, crimson, pink, lake, maroon, carnation, couleur de rose, rose du Barry, magenta, damask, purple, flesh color, flesh tint, color, fresh color, high color, warmth, gules, ruby, carbuncle, rose, rust, iron mold, cinnabar, cochineal, fuchsine, ruddle, madder, Indian red, light red, Venetian red, red ink, annotto, annatto, realgar, minium, red lead, redness, rubescence, rubicundity, rubification, erubescence, blush, red, reddish, rufous, ruddy, florid, incarnadine, sanguine, rosy, roseate, blowzy, blowed, burnt, rubicund, rubiform, lurid, stammell blood red, russet buff, murrey, carroty, sorrel, lateritious, rubineous, rubricate, rubricose, rufulous, rose-colored, ruby-colored, cherry-colored, claret-colored, flame- colored, flesh-colored, peach-colored, salmon-colored, brick-colored, brick-colored, dust-colored, blushing, erubescent, reddened, red as fire, red as blood, red as scarlet, red as a turkey cock, red as a lobster, warm, hot, foxy.
artificial lake, battle of lake trasimenus, canandaigua lake, cayuga lake, coeur d'alene lake, crater lake national park, great salt lake, great slave lake, keuka lake, lake albert, lake albert nyanza, lake aral, lake baikal, lake balaton, lake baykal, lake bed, lake bottom, lake canandaigua, lake cayuga, lake chad, lake champlain, lake chelan, lake clark national park, lake constance, lake district, lake duck, lake dwelling, lake edward, lake erie, lake eyre, lake geneva, lake herring, lake huron, lake ilmen, lake keuka, lake kivu, lake ladoga, lake leman, lake malawi, lake mead, lake michigan, lake nasser, lake nyasa, lake okeechobee, lake onega, lake ontario, lake poets, lake powell, lake saint clair, lake salmon, lake seneca, lake st. clair, lake superior, lake tahoe, lake tana, lake tanganyika, lake trasimenus, lake trout, lake tsana, lake urmia, lake vanern, lake victoria, lake whitefish, lake winnipeg, mobuto lake, oxbow lake, salt lake city, seneca lake