flaking
剥がれ落ちる
解説 Definition
flaking は flake（薄片になる、はがれ落ちる）の現在分詞・動名詞です。塗料や皮膚、表面の一部が薄くはがれて落ちる様子を表します。
The process of a surface, coating, or skin breaking away and falling off in small, thin pieces. The form may also function as the present participle of “flake.”
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 flake「薄片になる・はがれ落ちる」に -ing を付けた形で、ここでは塗料や皮膚が薄片となって落ちる現象を表す名詞です。flake が「薄く平たい一片」なのを核に、flaking paint や skin flaking を思い浮かべます。peeling は層状にはがれる動き、flaking は小さな薄片になる点が中心です。
Begin with a flake: a small, thin, flat piece. Add -ing to form flaking, the process in which paint, skin, or another surface separates into such pieces and falls away. Visualize flaking paint on an old door or dry skin flaking in winter. This image keeps the meaning concrete. Peeling can involve a larger strip or layer pulling away, whereas flaking emphasizes many small, thin fragments. As a form of the verb flake, it can also describe a surface that is currently doing this.
例文
Flaking paint covered the old door.
古いドアは、はがれかけた塗料で覆われていました。
The wall needs repair because the surface is flaking.
表面がはがれ落ちているので、その壁は修理が必要です。
Dry skin can lead to flaking in cold weather.
寒い季節には、乾燥した肌が皮むけにつながることがあります。
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flaking の語源・成り立ち Etymology
flakeは中英語flake、古ノルド語flak（薄片・雪片）に由来。ゲルマン祖語*flakō（平たいもの）が起源で、flaw（裂け目）やflat（平ら）と同根。表面が薄く剥がれ落ちる様子を表し、flakingはその進行形・名詞形。
Flaking is formed from flake plus -ing. Flake has been used in English for a thin, flat piece and is related to Scandinavian forms such as Old Norse flaki, referring to a slab or flat object. From the noun came the verb meaning to separate or come off in thin pieces. Flaking names that action or serves as its present-participle form.
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