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
When bakers follow a recipe to make a cake, they end up with cake.
The country had bigger problems, and their wedding cake could wait.
This super simple cake makes an excellent, not-too-sweet afternoon snack and keeps very well.
Harness the bright sweetness of oranges in these 7 recipes | Kari Sonde | November 9, 2020 | Washington PostThey learned a long time ago they can’t have their cake and eat it too when it comes to openly fighting these platforms while directly funding them.
One can’t offer a cake, a hug, or words of support to people born in the 23rd century.
“Are we being good ancestors?” should be the central question of our time | Katie McLean | October 21, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
The way I pick who gets caked is generally by who shows me the most energy and is screaming for it.
Blood and blackened remnants are caked on the bathroom floor.
At the moment they look like dirt-caked kiddie pools, long-drained.
Others were picked up by Border Patrol in the desert this morning, their skin and clothing still caked in dirt and sweat.
Private Prisons Rule With Little Oversight on America’s Border | Caitlin Dickson | June 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTRain had fallen heavily overnight and the streets were caked in sludge.
Inside a Russian-Occupied Police Station in Ukraine | David Patrikarakos | April 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe cow should be bled, and take a large dose of physic; then wash the udder as in caked bag.
Domestic Animals | Richard L. AllenMay be healed by rubbing with goose oil, cream, new milk; or make the same applications for it as for caked bag.
Domestic Animals | Richard L. AllenNearer and nearer I approached, until at last my feet rested on the hard caked soil.
Animal Ghosts | Elliott O'DonnellThe last was filled with priming, caked like a bit of cinder, by time, moisture and compression.
The Deerslayer | James Fenimore CooperHe looked at it between caked lids and let his eyes rove over and over its rare beauties.
Atlantic Narratives | Mary Antin
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.
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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