Microarray and Flake

noun

• A crystal of snow.
  • synonyms: snowflake
• A person with an unusual or odd personality.
  • synonyms: eccentric, eccentric person, oddball, geek
• A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.
  • usage: "a bit of rock caught him in the eye"
  • synonyms: bit, chip, fleck, scrap

verb

• Form into flakes.
  • usage: "The substances started to flake"
• Cover with flakes or as if with flakes.
• Come off in flakes or thin small pieces.
  • usage: "The paint in my house is peeling off"
  • synonyms: peel off, peel, flake off

• (n.) A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow or fish.
• (n.) A paling; a hurdle.
• (n.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
• (v.i.) To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
• (v.t.) To form into flakes.
• (n.) A platform of hurdles or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
• (n.) A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
• (n.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
• (n.) A flat layer or fake, of a coiled cable.