Meaning

4 senses

  1. (Northern, UK, dialectal)To leap, jump, exert oneself; to play.

  2. To subject biological cells to repeated cycles of freezing and thawing until lysis.

  3. To make lake-red.

  4. (obsolete)To present an offering.

Examples

1108 sentences

  1. Some boats are on the lake.

    Декілька човнів плавають на озері. — ascolto

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  2. He ran down to the lake.

    Він побіг до озера. — deniko

    deEr lief hinunter an den See. — wolfgangth

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  3. She took him to the lake.

    Вона взяла його з собою до озера. — deniko

    ruОна отвела его к озеру. — marafon

    deSie hat ihn an den See mitgenommen. — Esperantostern

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  4. We've walked all around the lake.

    Ми обійшли навколо озера. — deniko

    ruМы обошли вокруг озера. — sharptoothed

    deWir wanderten eine volle Runde um den See. — al_ex_an_der

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  5. The water in the lake is cool.

    Вода в озері прохолодна. — deniko

    ruВода в озере прохладная. — odexed

    deDas Wasser im See ist kühl. — landano

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Origin

From Northern Middle English lake, lak, lac (also laik, layke; Southern loke), from Old En

From Northern Middle English lake, lak, lac (also laik, layke; Southern loke), from Old English lāc (“play, sport, strife, battle, sacrifice, offering, gift, present, booty, message”), from Proto-West Germanic *laik, from Proto-Germanic *laikaz (“game, dance, hymn, sport”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“to bounce, shake, tremble”). Cognate with Old High German leih (“song, melody, music”), Old Norse leikr (whence Danish leg (“game”), Swedish leka (“to play”)), and Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌺𐍃 (laiks, “dance”). Doublet of lek.

From French laque (“lacquer”), from Persian لاک (lâk), from Hindi लाख (lākh), from Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā). Doublet of lac and lacquer.

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Forms

lakes, laking, laked, laked
Base formlake · to lake
3rd person singularlakes
Present participlelaking
Past simplelaked
Past participlelaked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theylake
he, she, itlakes

Past simpleLesson

all personslaked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave laked
he, she, ithas laked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill lake

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • to the lake
  • near the lake
  • in this lake
  • the lake is
  • around the lake
  • near a lake
  • in the lake
  • of the lake
  • across the lake
  • lake is deepest
  • on the lake
  • into the lake

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
lagoonlairlaitylakefrontlakeside

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