lake

UK /leɪk/ US /leɪk/
noun 9name 5verb 4

Definitions

noun

1

A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.

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 ].

2

A large amount of liquid.

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?

3

A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.

4

A pit, or ditch.

noun

1

An offering, sacrifice, gift.

2

Play; sport; game; fun; glee.

verb

1

To present an offering.

2

To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.

3

To subject biological cells to repeated cycles of freezing and thawing until lysis.

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