cake
a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring.
a flat, thin mass of bread, especially unleavened bread.
a shaped or molded mass of other food: a fish cake.
a shaped or compressed mass: a cake of soap; a cake of ice.
Animal Husbandry. a compacted block of soybeans, cottonseeds, or linseeds from which the oil has been pressed, usually used as a feed or feed supplement for cattle.
to form into a crust or compact mass.
to become formed into a crust or compact mass.
Idioms about cake
a piece of cake, Informal. something easily done: She thought her first solo flight was a piece of cake.
take the cake, Informal.
to surpass all others, especially in some undesirable quality; be extraordinary or unusual: His arrogance takes the cake.
to win first prize.
Origin of cake
1Other words for cake
Other words from cake
- caky, cakey, adjective
- non·cak·ing, adjective, noun
- un·cake, verb (used with object), un·caked, un·cak·ing.
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How to use cake in a sentence
Every meal is included, including desserts and yes, even wedding cakes.
I even ask myself, are the cakes and the rafts taking away from the art of my culture, DJing?
For next to no money, the photographer Christine McConnell makes cakes and cookies that are their own miniature horror movies.
The Wonderful Weirdness of Christine McConnell, Queen of Creepy Cookies | Tim Teeman | July 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe is Ann Fisher, who brings her handsome triple-layer cakes to the Soul Kitchen twice a week.
Woodside Farm sells sundaes, milk shakes, ice cream cakes and pies, pints, and quarts.
Aristide called on Madame Coquereau, who entertained him with sweet Frontignan wine, dry sponge cakes and conversation.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeThe poorest people reduce it to powder by manual labour, in the same way as they grind corn preparatory to baking it into cakes.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis TrevithickA basket full of millet must go with the millet cakes: this is the food wherein the country goddess finds pleasure most of all.
The Religion of Ancient Rome | Cyril BaileyEves mother had a great heap of hot cakes ready for them, and there was coffee, too, to drive out the cold.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage | Gertrude W. MorrisonBags of strong cloth, thin and open at the sides, are provided, into which the cakes are pressed strongly down on each other.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.
British Dictionary definitions for cake
/ (keɪk) /
a baked food, usually in loaf or layer form, typically made from a mixture of flour, sugar, and eggs
a flat thin mass of bread, esp unleavened bread
a shaped mass of dough or other food of similar consistency: a fish cake
a mass, slab, or crust of a solidified or compressed substance, as of soap or ice
have one's cake and eat it to enjoy both of two desirable but incompatible alternatives
go like hot cakes or sell like hot cakes informal to be sold very quickly or in large quantities
piece of cake informal something that is easily achieved or obtained
take the cake informal to surpass all others, esp in stupidity, folly, etc
informal the whole or total of something that is to be shared or divided: the miners are demanding a larger slice of the cake; that is a fair method of sharing the cake
(tr) to cover with a hard layer; encrust: the hull was caked with salt
to form or be formed into a hardened mass
Origin of cake
1Derived forms of cake
- cakey or caky, adjective
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with cake
see eat one's cake and have it, too; flat as a pancake; icing on the cake; nutty as a fruitcake; piece of cake; sell like hot cakes; slice of the pie (cake); take the cake.
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