Difference between Flake and Peel

What is the difference between Flake and Peel?

Flake as a verb is to break or chip off in a flake. while Peel as a verb is to plunder; to pillage, rob.

Flake

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To break or chip off in a flake. To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through. To store an item such as rope in layers to hit (another person).

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, paint, or fish. A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone. A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living. dogfish The meat of the gummy shark.

Peel

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To plunder; to pillage, rob.To remove the skin or outer covering of.To remove from the outer or top layer of.To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.To remove one's clothing.To move, separate (off or away)To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).to sound loudly.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable etc. (usually )The action of peeling away from a formation.A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or exfoliate.A stake.A fence made of stakes; a stockade.A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven.A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.The blade of an oar.An equal or match; a draw.A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.

Example sentence: The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

We hope you now know whether to use Flake or Peel in your sentence.

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