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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishflawe,flay(“a flake of fire or snow, spark, splinter”), probably fromOld Norseflaga(“a flag or slab of stone, flake”), fromProto-Germanic*flagō(“a layer of soil”), fromProto-Indo-European*plok-(“broad, flat”).

Cognate withIcelandicflaga(“flake”),Swedishflaga(“flake, scale”),Danishflage(“flake”),Middle Low Germanvlage(“a layer of soil”),Old Englishflōh(“a fragment, piece”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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flaw (pluralflaws)

  1. (obsolete) Aflake,fragment, orshiver.
  2. (obsolete) A thin cake, as of ice.
  3. Acrack orbreach, agap orfissure; a defect ofcontinuity orcohesion.
    There is aflaw in that knife.
    That vase has aflaw.
  4. Adefect,fault, orimperfection, especially one that is hidden.
    • 1692–1717,Robert South,Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume(please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
      Has not this also itsflaws and its dark side?
    1. (in particular) Aninclusion,stain, or otherdefect of adiamond or othergemstone.
    2. (law) Adefect orerror in a contract or other document which may make the documentinvalid orineffective.
      aflaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute
Synonyms
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Translations
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crack or breach
defect, fault
defect in a gemstone

Verb

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flaw (third-person singular simple presentflaws,present participleflawing,simple past and past participleflawed)

  1. (transitive) To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.
  2. (intransitive) To become imperfect or defective; tocrack orbreak.
Translations
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to add a flaw to
to become imperfect

Etymology 2

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FromMiddle English*flaugh, fromMiddle Dutchvlāghe orMiddle Low Germanvlāge, ultimately fromProto-West Germanic*flagā.[1] Or, possibly ofNorth Germanic origin, fromSwedishflaga(“gust of wind”), fromOld Norseflaga;[2] all fromProto-Germanic*flagǭ(“blow, strike”). See modernDutchvlaag(“gust of wind”).

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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flaw (pluralflaws)

  1. A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration;windflaw.
  2. A storm of short duration.
  3. A sudden burst of noise and disorder
    Synonyms:tumult,uproar,quarrel
Translations
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burst of wind
burst of noise
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Further reading

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“flaw”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.

References

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  1. ^James A. H. Murrayet al., editors (1884–1928), “Flaw”, inA New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London:Clarendon Press,→OCLC.
  2. ^“flaw”, inThe American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,2016,→ISBN.

Anagrams

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Verb

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flaw

  1. Tofaint.
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