Difference between Flake and Snowflake

What is the difference between Flake and Snowflake?

Flake as a noun is 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. while Snowflake as a noun is a crystal of snow, having approximate hexagonal symmetry.

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.

Snowflake

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A crystal of snow, having approximate hexagonal symmetry.Any of several bulbous European plants, of the genus Leucojum, having white flowers.The snow bunting.

Example sentence: I grew up thinking I was going to change the world, but not because I was treated like a special snowflake. It's a silly label. People are starving. We need to feed them. That's the end of the conversation.

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

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