lake
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- noun
- /leɪk/
- Specialized
:
laca (pigmento)
- She mixed the lake pigment with water to create a beautiful shade for her painting.
- scarlet lake
- crimson lake
- blue lake
Examples
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The artist chose a vibrant lake color to enhance the landscape in her artwork.
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You can create a rich lake hue by combining different shades of dye until you find the perfect match.
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It evokes the beauties of the country she knew as a child, the mountains and the lakes... that she can never forget.
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Lynn hangs over the platform to primp in one of the cracked mirror lakes.
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"And in a small house on Levant Street in the Twin Peaks area of the city, he took her hunting and fishing in his lakes and mountains.
Fiction book (1990) -
Note that for this relationship, Crosswise Lake was sampled upstream from major historical mining activity, which may be why it resembles a migration lake, because the impacts of mining were reduced on the upstream side of the lake.
Academic text (2018)
Idioms
Compounds
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The capital of Utah near the Great Salt Lake and home to the main offices of the Mormon Church
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A large clear lake with fresh water on the border of Nevada and California popular for skiing and summer holidays
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A large lake between southwestern Switzerland and France that the Rhone River crosses
- US
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A large freshwater fish like a salmon found in cold northern lakes and caught for food and sport
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The largest lake in Africa between Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania that feeds the Nile
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A beautiful area in northwest England with lakes, mountains, and small villages that visitors like
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The largest freshwater lake in the world on the border of the United States and Canada
A battle in 217 BC in Italy during the Second Punic War where Hannibal ambushed and defeated a Roman army
A fight in central Italy in 217 BC where Hannibal defeats Roman forces led by Flaminius
A 217 BC ambush near Lake Trasimene where Hannibal defeats a Roman army
A large lake in northern Idaho known for its beauty and for boating and fishing
A national park in Oregon with the deepest lake in the United States formed in a volcano crater
A large shallow lake on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa
A shallow lake on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in East Africa
A large lake between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan now much smaller because people took water from rivers
- Offensive
A large national park in Alaska with mountains, lakes, and old Native sites
- Offensive
A large national park in Alaska with wild nature and old sites of Native people
A large lake on the border of Germany, Switzerland, and Austria where the Rhine flows
A large lake in northwest Russia near the border with Finland, the second largest in Europe
- Literature
A group of English poets who lived in the Lake District and wrote about its landscape
A large lake between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo with beautiful shores and underwater gas
A very large manmade lake on the Nevada and Arizona border formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River
A lake between Ontario, Canada, and Michigan, USA that connects Lake Huron and Lake Erie
A lake between Ontario, Canada and Michigan, USA that connects Lake Huron and Lake Erie
A large freshwater lake in southern Manitoba, Canada with many fishing communities
A large lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada drained by the Mackenzie River
The largest freshwater lake in China in Jiangxi province, connected to the Yangtze River
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lake for a color comes from the old word lacca, a name for dye made from insects, so a 'lake' pigment is a bright, clear color made by fixing a dye onto a solid material.