Definition of "lake" in English

noun

1. A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.

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. (now chiefly dialectal) A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.

4. (obsolete) A pit, or ditch.

noun

1. (obsolete) An offering, sacrifice, gift.

2. (dialectal) Play; sport; game; fun; glee.

verb

1. (obsolete) To present an offering.

2. (dialectal, Northern, UK) To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.

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

noun

1. (obsolete) A kind of fine, white linen.

noun

1. 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.

2. 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.

verb

1. To make lake-red.