cake

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/ keɪk /

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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.

OTHER WORDS FOR cake

8 harden, solidify, dry, congeal.

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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

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.

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How to use cake in a sentence

By inputting your keywords into Google’s search, which in this case is “how to bake a cake,” it’s clear from the results that users are looking for cake recipe ideas and baking guides.
Seven most popular types of blog posts guaranteed to boost traffic|Karl Tablante|November 30, 2020|Search Engine Watch
At the end of the day, certain nerve cells in the midbrain fired up in response to pictures of pizza and chocolate cake.
Lonely brains crave people like hungry brains crave food|Bethany Brookshire|November 23, 2020|Science News
Players in VanVleet’s spot don’t always get to have their cake and eat it, too, so it was nice for all parties to see Toronto reward him with a four-year, $85 million contract.
NBA free agency winners and losers: A tough weekend for the Wizards and Knicks|Ben Golliver|November 23, 2020|Washington Post
The plan was never to gather indoors, Aragonez said, but as family members arrived, people congregated in the living room, where for a couple of hours, everyone sat around the couch without masks, sharing fajitas and chocolate cake.
A birthday lunch left 15 Texas relatives battling covid-19: ‘Please don’t be like my family’|Andrea Salcedo|November 23, 2020|Washington Post

He’s already planning the Christmas Day breakfasts he’ll help distribute in about a month — last year, it was hot cakes, sausage links, hard-boiled eggs and hot apple cider, he said.
‘It’s going to take a village’: Community group prepares to deliver 3,000 meals before Thanksgiving|Lauren Lumpkin|November 22, 2020|Washington Post
Or why powering through will make future challenges more cakey to accomplish.
What the Stars Hold for Your Week|Starsky + Cox|July 23, 2011|DAILY BEAST
The cakey part of this layer cake is mixed with instant (powdered) espresso, which gives it a nutty, toasted taste.
4 Autumnal Desserts|Michel Richard|November 18, 2010|DAILY BEAST
A porterbottle stood up, stogged to its waist, in the cakey sand dough.
Ulysses|James Joyce

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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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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