Blake

Definition: Blake

Blake

Noun

1. Visionary British poet (1757-1827).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Blake" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be black", "to be pale".

Date "Blake" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

"Blake" is a common misspelling or typo for: bake, black, blame, bleak, bloke.

Synonym: Blake

Crosswords: Blake

Manx (gape).

Jamie Blake! Yeah, you used to drive that Formula One. When high-buttoned shoes were in style! (The Cannonball Run; writing credit: Brock Yates)

Blake. A little advance don't you think? (The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys; writing credit: Jeff Stockwell)

It is strange that you do not remember any of your poetry, William Blake. (Dead Man; writing credit: Jim Jarmusch)

Blake is an idealist; he cannot allow himself to think. (Blake's 7; writing credit: Peter S. Fischer; Anna Sewell)

William Blake. (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider; writing credit: Sara B. Cooper; Mike Werb)

And he saw the lights of traffic beckoning like the hands of Blake (Birdland; performing artist: Patti Smith)

Blake (1969)

Sexton Blake (1968)

Corrigan Blake (1963)

The Vision of William Blake (1958)

Votre dévoué Blake (1954)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Matthew Harris - Innocence & Experience: Three Blake Songs for Satb Chorus, a Cappella (reference)

• Blue Moon (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter) (reference)

• Burnt Offerings (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter) (reference)

• Cerulean Sins: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel (reference)

• Letters of William Blake 3e W/Related Documents (REV AND AMPLIFIED) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Master Poets Collection: The Poetical Art of William Blake (reference)

• Poetical Art of William Blake (reference)

• Blake of Scotland Yard (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Boieldieu - La Dame blanche / Blake, Massis, Delunsch, Fouchécourt, Naouri, Brunet, Minkowski (reference)

• Blake Shelton (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Charles D. Sigsbee Commanded the Coast Survey Steamer BLAKE Invented Sigsbee Sounding Machine With Alexander Agassiz was first to use steel cable for deepsea oceanography Known for commanding the MAINE when sunk at Havana.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer BLAKE In service 1874-1905 Atlantic service Classic Gulf Stream studies, many instrument innovations Pioneered deepsea anchoring.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

1. Common dredge. 2. Chester rake-dredge. 3 and 4. Blake dredge. In: "Report on the Construction and Outfit of the United States Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS", by Lieutenant-Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part XI. Report of the Commissioner for 1883. Plate XLIX, p. 111.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 17. Belknap and Sigsbee sounding device, designed by George Belknap on board the TUSCARORA in 1873-1874. This instrument, which was a modification of the Brooke sounder, was subsequently improved by Lieutenant Charles D. Sigsbee, USN, while in command of the Coast Survey Steamer BLAKE in 1878.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

The names of the ships POLA and BLAKE inscribed on the facade of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco. The BLAKE was the Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship BLAKE which was memorialized because of its work in the Gulf Stream, the Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean. It also was one of the most innovative of Nineteenth Century research vessels.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Plate 29. Plans of the deck and apparatus of the BLAKE. In: "Deep-sea Sounding and Dredging" by Charles D. Sigsbee, 1880. Library Call Number GC75.S53 1880.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Piano-wire sounding maching developed by Sir William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin. This machine was used by George Belknap to sound from the U. S. S. TUSCARORA in a cable survey across the North Pacific. He shipped it to Charles Sigsbee on the C&GS Steamer BLAKE who modified the machine to become the Sigsbee Sounding Machine. In: "150 Years of Service on the Seas ...." Call No.GC29.2.U5 P5.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

A bottom sediment map. Published in "Three Cruises of the Blake", Alexander Agassiz, 1888. P. 286. The majority of the sediment samples in this map were obtained as the result of Coast Survey expeditions between the 1840's and 1880's. Library Call Number QH93.A26 1888 v.1.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Dan Greenlee (left) and Ed Blake doing snow survey at Marlette Lake, near Lake Tahoe, Nevada.Credit: Ron Nichols.

Ed Blake doing snow survey at Marlette Lake, near Lake Tahoe, Nevada.Credit: Ron Nichols.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Then there are the Blake Forsters.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Blake PA. Epidemiology of cholera in the Americas. (references)

Baxter, John D. and Tyrrell, 1. Blake, "The Adrenal Cortex," in Endocrinolegy and Metabolism, second edition, edited by Philip Felig,, John D. Baxter, Arthur E. Broadus, and Lawrence A. Frohman. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

There was no progress on the investigation into the intellectual authorship of the 1985 murder of foreign journalist Nicholas Blake despite orders from both an appeals court and the Supreme Court. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "Blake": Blake breaker ♦ Blake Dawson Waldron ♦ William Blake. Additional references.

Beginning with "Blake": Blake-dax, Blake-knox.

Ending with "Blake": Aldrich-blake.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Blake" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Balaki, Balakov, Blache, Blaga, Blagoev, Blagov, Blak, Blakea, Blanke, Blavey, Blumka, Boake. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bleak.

-1 letter: able, bake, bale, balk, beak, blae, kale, lake, leak.

-2 letters: alb, ale, bal, bel, elk, kab, kae, kea, lab, lea, lek.

-3 letters: ab, ae, al, ba, be, el, ka, la.

+1 letter: balked, balker, bleaks, keblah.

+2 letters: balkers, balkier, batlike, baulked, bechalk, becloak, blacked, blacken, blacker, blanked, blanker, blanket, bleaker, bleakly, bulkage, keblahs, likable, makable, skiable, takable.

+3 letters: abelmosk, backless, balkiest, balkline, balmlike, bankable, bankerly, barkless, barnlike, baulkier, beadlike, beakless, beaklike, beamlike, beanlike, bearlike, bechalks, becloaks, blackens, blackest, blackleg, blankest, blankets, bleakest, bleakish, blockade, blockage, bluejack, boatlike, bookable, bulkages, bulkhead, clambake, cookable, halfbeak, kabeljou, keelboat, keepable, kickable, kielbasa, kielbasi, kielbasy, kilobase, kissable, knowable, lamblike, likeable, linkable, lockable, makeable, maskable, mockable, packable, scablike, shakable, sinkable, skewbald, slablike, slakable, smokable, takeable, talkable, walkable, workable.

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