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lake

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1. lake - Noun

2. lake - Verb

3. Lake - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.

To play; to sport.

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Perhaps The truth depends on a walk around a lake. Wallace Stevens

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. Kurt Vonnegut

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake. Rabindranath Tagore

Drop by drop - a whole lake becomes. Bulgarian Proverb

Drop by drop would make a lake. Azerbaijani Proverb

When the lamps in the house are lit it is like the flowering of lotus on the lake. Chinese Proverb

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