A lake is a large body of water that is surrounded by land. The lake's water can be fresh (like Lake Michigan) or, more rarely, salty (like the Great Salt Lake). A lake is generally accepted as being bigger than a "pond."
A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate;
Noun
a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land
Noun
any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments
Noun
a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal
n.
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.
n.
A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.
v. i.
To play; to sport.
n.
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.
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A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate;
A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.
To play; to sport.
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.
Usage Examples
I spend up to two hours a day on correspondence. Hearing from fans on the Internet and being able to directly respond to the fan base is exciting. You can cut out the middle man like the fan club... before a recent appearance in Tyler, Texas, I had fans reaching out on MySpace offering their lake house, Mavericks tickets. It was amazing.
On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.
On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.
I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother used to ride me over to Lake Forest College on his Honda Supersport and we'd watch the Bears practice. I remember those guys out there as monsters - they were the biggest things I've ever seen!
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
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Other Usage ExamplesMy Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.