lake

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  HOTEL AT YELLOWSTONE LAKE
• WordNet 3.6
  • n lake a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land
  • n lake any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments
  • n lake a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal
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SUNLIGHT LAKE

LAKE YELLOWSTONE, FROM A DISTANCE

a Part of the Ancient Sacred Lake Of Osiris Near The Temple of Abydos

Extensive landscaped gardens with a lake and statuary

CROSSING LAKE SUPERIOR

"'IF YOU WANTED A LAKE, MR. HIGGINBOTHAM, I—'"

A stag gazes at his reflection in a lake while hunters approach

BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF CHICAGO, FROM THE LAKE SIDE

• Interesting fact: Canada has more inland waters and lakes than any other country in the world
• • n Lake A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.
  • n Lake 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.☞ 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.
  • n Lake lāk 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.
  • v. i Lake lāk To play; to sport.
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• Interesting fact: Finland is also known as "the land of of the thousand lakes," because of the over 188,000 lakes found in this country
• • n lake A body of water surrounded by land, or not forming part of the ocean and occupying a depression below the ordinary drainage-level of the region. Lakes are depressions or basins filled by streams flowing into them, the water thus introduced generally accumulating until it runs over at the lowest point of the edge of the depression, and then flowing to the sea. But in some cases a river may fill a number of such depressions in succession before reaching the sea, as is very notably the case with the chain of lakes and rivers beginning with Lake Superior and ending in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The larger depressions which when filled with water become lakes are ordinarily orographic in character—that is, they owe their origin to movements of the earth's crust, in the same manner as mountain-ranges. Many smaller lakes, however, especially the shallower ones, fill depressions which have originated from local or less general causes, as when produced by unequal decay or erosion of rocks, or by irregular distribution of surface detritus. The existence of a depression being given, the question whether it shall be entirely filled with water is one of climate. In regions of small rainfall and large evaporation, depressions occur which do not become filled with water, and consequently do not furnish any surplus which shall overflow and run to the sea. Such regions, having no drainage to the sea, are called closed basins, and there are very large areas of this character in Asia and North America, and smaller ones elsewhere. The water in the lakes occupying the lowest portion of such depressions is always more or less saline, because that which is brought in leaves as it evaporates a constantly accumulating store of the saline matters which it holds in solution. The Caspian Sea is properly a salt lake; and some lakes are excessively salt, as the Great Salt Lake in Utah and the Dead Sea (also properly a lake). There are lakes of considerable size, as several in Canada, which have no visible inlets, being fed entirely from subterranean sources.
  • n lake A relatively small pond partly or wholly artificial, as an ornament of a park or of public or private grounds.
  • n lake A stream; rivulet.
  • n lake A pit; den.
  • lake To play; sport; trifle; “lark.”
  • n lake Play; sport; game.
  • n lake A contest; a fight.
  • n lake A pigment formed by absorbing animal, vegetable, or coal-tar coloring matter from an aqueous solution by means of metallic bases. The general method of preparation is to add an alkali solution to an infusion of the substance affording the desired color, as madder, cochineal, logwood, or quercitron. To this is added a solution of common alum, producing a precipitate of alumina, which in settling carries with it the coloring matter, thus forming the lake. As paints, lakes lack body, and are mostly used in glazing over other colors. From cochineal is prepared carmine, the finest of the red lakes. Crimson lake is a cochineal lake containing more aluminous base than carmine. Carminated lake is the cheaper and weaker lake made from cochineal after the carmine has been extracted. Scarlet lake is prepared by mixing vermilion with crimson lake. Purple lake is a species of crimson lake with a purple hue. Madder lakes are produced by precipitating the coloring matter of the madder-root with an alumina base. They range in color from light pink through red to brown and purple. Indian lake is the same as lac-lake (which see, under lac). Yellow lake is made from quercitron-bark, sometimes from Persian or French Avignon berries. Green lake is compounded by adding Prussian blue to yellow lake. Citrine lake is an obsolete term for brown pink. Burnt lake is obtained by partially charring crimson lake. From logwood are obtained lakes of various shades of deep-brownish red, as rose lake, Florence lake, Florentine lake, etc. From certain of the coal-tar colors are obtained lakes almost identical in color with cochineal and madder and equal in permanency.
  • n lake A kind of fine white linen.
  • lake A dialectal form of leak.
  • n lake An obsolete or dialectal form of lack.
  • lake To become laky, or like a lake (pigment) in color. See laky.
  • lake To cause to resemble a lake (pigment) in color; specifically, discharge (the hemoglobin) rapidly from the erythrocytes into the blood-plasma.
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• Interesting fact: Lake Ontario was originally named Lake St. Louis
• • n Lake lāk a pigment or colour formed by precipitating animal or vegetable colouring matters from their solutions, chiefly with alumina or oxide of tin.
  • n Lake lāk a large body of water within land
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• Sting

  

  “Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.”
• Thomas Love Peacock

  

  “Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.”
• Gil Stern

  

  “Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.”
• Timothy Gallwey

  

  “The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.”
• Percy Ross

  

  “Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.”
• Sir John Lubbock

  

  “Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”

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