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
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 WatchAt 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 NewsPlayers 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 PostThe 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 PostHe’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.
The cakey part of this layer cake is mixed with instant (powdered) espresso, which gives it a nutty, toasted taste.
A porterbottle stood up, stogged to its waist, in the cakey sand dough.
Ulysses | James Joyce
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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