Synonyms of the word

exfoliation

• n. The scaling off of a bone, a rock, or a mineral, etc.; the state of being exfoliated.
• n. The loss of leaves from a plant.
• n. The removal of a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation.

bit

• n. A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
• n. A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
• n. (dated, Britain) A coin of a specified value. (Also formerly used for a nine-pence coin in the British…
• n. (obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime.
• n. (US) An eighth of a dollar. Note that there is no coin minted worth 12.5 cents. (When this term first…
• n. (historical, US) In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly…
• n. A small amount of something.
• n. (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
• n. A portion of something.
• n. Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree.
• n. (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
• n. An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
• n. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
• n. The cutting iron of a plane.
• adv. To a small extent; in a small amount (usually with "a").
• v. (transitive) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
• v. simple past tense of bite.
• v. (informal in US, archaic in Britain) past participle of bite, bitten.
• adj. (colloquial) bitten.
• adj. (only in combination) Having been bitten.
• n. (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
• n. (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
• n. (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
• n. (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
• n. A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).

chip

• n. A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
• n. A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
• n. (games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.
• n. (electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.
• n. (electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised…
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, especially in the plural) A fried strip of potato of square…
• n. (US, Australia and New Zealand, especially in the plural) A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, or sometimes…
• n. (sports) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to…
• n. (curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
• n. A dried piece of dung used as fuel.
• n. (New Zealand, northern) A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
• n. (cooking) A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
• n. A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent…
• n. (nautical) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
• n. (historical) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making…
• n. (archaic, derogatory) Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour.
• n. (golf) A low shot that travels further along the ground than it does in the air.
• v. (transitive) To break into small pieces.
• v. (transitive) To break small pieces from.
• v. (transitive, sports) To play a shot hitting the ball predominately upwards rather than forwards.
• v. (transitive, sports) In association football, specifically, to play a shot on goal by kicking the ball…
• v. (transitive, automotive) to upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
• v. (intransitive) To become chipped.
• v. (intransitive, card games, often with "in") To ante (up).
• v. (transitive, informal) To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
• v. (Britain, transitive, often with "in") to contribute.

flake

• n. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything.
• n. A scale of a fish or similar animal.
• n. (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
• n. (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining…
• n. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
• v. To break or chip off in a flake.
• v. (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
• v. (technical) To store an item such as rope in layers.
• v. (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
• n. (Britain) Dogfish.
• n. (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
• n. (Britain, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
• n. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish…
• n. (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
• n. (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”).

fleck

• n. A flake.
• n. A lock, as of wool.
• n. A small spot or streak; a speckle.
• v. (transitive) To mark with small spots.

scale

• n. (obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
• n. An ordered numerical sequence used for measurement.
• n. Size; scope.
• n. The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
• n. A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified…
• n. A means of assigning a magnitude.
• n. (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
• n. A mathematical base for a numeral system.
• n. Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative…
• v. (transitive) To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process…
• v. (transitive) To climb to the top of.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting…
• v. (transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
• n. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of…
• n. A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their…
• n. A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
• n. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that…
• n. The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
• n. Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
• n. Limescale.
• n. A scale insect.
• n. The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
• v. (transitive) To remove the scales of.
• v. (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
• v. (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
• v. (transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
• v. (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
• v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
• v. (transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
• n. A device to measure mass or weight.
• n. Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.

scrap

• n. A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
• n. (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
• n. Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
• n. (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated to the Norte gang.
• n. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
• v. (transitive) To discard.
• v. (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
• v. (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
• v. (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
• v. (transitive) To make into scrap.
• n. A fight, tussle, skirmish.
• v. to fight.

scurf

• n. A skin disease.
• n. The flakes of skin that fall off as a result of a skin disease.
• n. Any crust-like formations on the skin, or in general.
• n. (figuratively) The foul remains of anything adherent.
• n. (botany) Minute membranous scales on the surface of some leaves, as in the goosefoot.