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flaw

SubstantivVerbSubstantivin Dialogen belegt

  • Vereinigtes Königreich//flɔː//
  • Vereinigte Staaten//flɔ//
  • Vereinigte Staaten//flɑ//
  • Australien//floː//
  • Schottland//flɔ//
  • //ˈflɔː//

A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    veraltetA flake, fragment, or shiver.

  2. 2

    veraltetA thin cake, as of ice.

  3. 3

    A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.

    There is a flaw in that knife.

    That vase has a flaw.

    This heart / Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws.

  4. 4

    A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.

    Has not this also its flaws and its dark side?

  5. 5

    A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden. An inclusion, stain, or other defect of a diamond or other gemstone.

  6. 6

    A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden. A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid or ineffective.

    a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute

Herkunft

From Middle English flawe, flay (“a flake of fire or snow, spark, splinter”), probably from Old Norse flaga (“a flag or slab of stone, flake”), from Proto-Germanic *flagō (“a layer of soil”), from Proto-Indo-European *plok- (“broad, flat”). Cognate with Icelandic flaga (“flake”), Swedish flaga (“flake, scale”), Danish flage (“flake”), Middle Low German vlage (“a layer of soil”), Old English flōh (“a fragment, piece”).

Verb

  1. 1

    To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.

  2. 2

    To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw.

    And snow and haile and stormie gust and flaw

    Yniol with that hard message went; it fell, / Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn: […]

  2. 2

    A storm of short duration.

  3. 3

    A sudden burst of noise and disorder

    And deluges of armies from the town / Come pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw.

Herkunft

From Middle English *flaugh, from Middle Dutch vlāghe or Middle Low German vlāge, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *flagā. Or, possibly of North Germanic origin, from Swedish flaga (“gust of wind”), from Old Norse flaga; all from Proto-Germanic *flagǭ (“blow, strike”). See modern Dutch vlaag (“gust of wind”).

Formen

Plural
flaws
Präteritum
flawed
Partizip II
flawed
Partizip I
flawing
3. Person Singular
flaws
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