cake

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noun

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.

pancake; griddlecake.

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.

verb (used with object), caked, cak·ing.

to form into a crust or compact mass.

verb (used without object), caked, cak·ing.

to become formed into a crust or compact mass.

SYNONYMS FOR cake

8 harden, solidify, dry, congeal.

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Idioms for 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

1200–50; Middle English <Old Norse kaka; akin to Middle English kechel little cake, German Kuchen;see cookie

OTHER WORDS FROM cake

caky, cakey, adjectivenon·cak·ing, adjective, nounun·cake, verb (used with object), un·caked, un·cak·ing.

Words nearby cake

cajeputol, cajole, cajolery, Cajun, cajuput, cake, caked breast, cake eater, cake flour, cake kidney, cake makeup

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Instead of laying a chip’s various “neighborhoods” next to each other in a 2D silicon sprawl, they’ve stacked them on top of each other like a layer cake.
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A big cake requires a big festival, and Augustus was happy to comply.
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The Stollen was paraded through the city of Dresden, and later an appointed “Stollen girl” cut the cake.
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Now, it is the most traditional and celebrated Christmas cake in Germany—and definitely not associated with fasting.
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He had a special knife designed to cut the dense loaf, and a ceremony to precede cutting the cake.
One Cake to Rule Them All: How Stollen Stole Our Hearts|Molly Hannon|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The tasteless bread was transformed into a sweet cake that included ingredients, such as dried fruit and marzipan.
One Cake to Rule Them All: How Stollen Stole Our Hearts|Molly Hannon|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They would feed him apples, potatoes and sometimes bits of cake that Bob's mother gave them.
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It was with much amazement that they watched Henrietta absorb sandwiches, cake, eggs, and fruit.
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She peered around the room for the last time, and then dropped two small clean towels and a cake of soap into the bag.
The Box-Car Children|Gertrude Chandler Warner
The celebrant sprinkled the victim with wine and salted cake, and made a symbolic gesture with the knife.
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Then they all had coffee and cake, shook hands with Pete Senior, and went to their homes and laboratories.
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British Dictionary definitions for cake

cake

/ (keɪk) /

noun

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 consistencya 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 dividedthe miners are demanding a larger slice of the cake; that is a fair method of sharing the cake

verb

(tr) to cover with a hard layer; encrustthe hull was caked with salt

to form or be formed into a hardened mass

Derived forms of cake

cakey or caky, adjective

Word Origin for cake

C13: from Old Norse kaka; related to Danish kage, German Kuchen

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Idioms and Phrases with cake

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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