Speck vs. Flake — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Speck and Flake
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Definitions
Speck
Speck is smoked or pickled pork belly. In Germany, speck is pork fat with or without some meat in it.
Flake
A flat thin piece or layer; a chip.
Speck
A small spot, mark, or discoloration.
Flake
(Archaeology) A stone fragment removed from a core or from another flake by percussion or pressure, serving as a preform or as a tool or blade itself.
Speck
A tiny amount; a bit
Not a speck of truth in her story.
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Flake
A small piece; a bit.
Speck
To mark with specks.
Flake
A small crystalline bit of snow.
Speck
A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.
A tiny speck of soot
Flake
One who is undependable, as in keeping social engagements.
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Speck
A very small thing; a particle; a whit.
He has not a speck of money.
Not a speck of truth in her story
Flake
A somewhat eccentric person; an oddball.
Speck
A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
Flake
(Slang) Cocaine.
Speck
Fat; lard; fat meat.
Flake
A frame or platform for drying fish or produce.
Speck
(uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
Flake
A platform lowered over the side of a ship as a scaffold for performing maintenance or repairs.
Speck
The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
Flake
To remove a flake or flakes from; chip.
Speck
The fat of the hippopotamus.
Flake
To cover, mark, or overlay with or as if with flakes.
Speck
(transitive) To mark with specks; to speckle.
Paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture
Flake
To lay out (a rope or sail, for example) in loose folds.
Speck
The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.
Flake
To come off in flat thin pieces or layers.
Speck
A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit.
Flake
To renege, as on a social engagement
Promised to go to the party but flaked at the last moment.
Speck
A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.
Many bright specks bubble up along the blue Egean.
Flake
To fall asleep or collapse from fatigue or exhaustion
Got home and flaked on the sofa.
Speck
A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmæa) common in the Eastern United States.
Flake
A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
There were a few flakes of paint on the floor from when we were painting the walls.
Flakes of dandruff
Speck
To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture.
Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold.
Flake
A scale of a fish or similar animal
Speck
A very small spot;
The plane was just a speck in the sky
Flake
(archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
Speck
(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
Flake
(informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
She makes pleasant conversation, but she's kind of a flake when it comes time for action.
Speck
A slight but appreciable addition;
This dish could use a touch of garlic
Flake
A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
Speck
Produce specks in or on;
Speck the cloth
Flake
A flat turn or tier of rope.
Flake
A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
Flake
A wire rack for drying fish.
Flake
(UK) Dogfish.
Flake
(Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
Flake
A paling; a hurdle.
Flake
A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
Flake
(nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
Flake
(nautical) gloss=turn or coil of cable or hawser
Flake
To break or chip off in a flake.
The paint flaked off after only a year.
Flake
(colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
He said he'd come and help, but he flaked.
Flake
(technical) To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
The line is flaked into the container for easy attachment and deployment.
Flake
To hit (another person).
Flake
To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
Flake
To lay out on a flake for drying.
Flake a fish
Flake
A paling; a hurdle.
Flake
A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
You shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer them to have straw nor fern under them, but lay them either upon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer.
Flake
A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
Flake
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.
Great flakes of ice encompassing our boat.
Flake
A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
With flakes of ruddy fire.
Flake
A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
Flake
A person who behaves strangely; a flaky{2} person.
Flake
A flat layer, or fake, of a coiled cable.
Flake after flake ran out of the tubs, until we were compelled to hand the end of our line to the second mate.
Flake
To form into flakes.
Flake
To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
Flake
A crystal of snow
Flake
A person with an unusual or odd personality
Flake
A small fragment of something broken off from the whole;
A bit of rock caught him in the eye
Flake
Form into flakes;
The substances started to flake
Flake
Cover with flakes or as if with flakes
Flake
Come off in flakes or thin small pieces;
The paint in my house is peeling off
