cake

Pluralcakes

Formscakes, caking, caked

1. 1
   baked dessertnouncountable or uncountable

   A sweet baked food made with flour, sugar, and eggs, often with icing on top.

   We ate chocolate cake at my friend's birthday party.

   Would you like some cake after dinner?

   UsageBake a cake; eat some cake or a piece of cake.

   Similargateau

2. 2
   nouncountable

   A flat, round piece of chopped or mashed food, like fish or potato, pressed together and often fried.

   Grandma shaped the leftover mashed potatoes into a cake and fried it in butter.

   She ordered two crab cakes and a green salad for lunch.

   UsageUsually fish cakes, crab cakes, rice cakes.

   Similarpatty

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3. 3
   easy tasknounslangcountable or uncountableabbreviationellipsis

   Short for piece of cake. Use it to say a task is very easy.

   Don't worry about the quiz. It's cake.

   Fixing the flat tire was cake once I found the spare.

   UsageSay it was cake, with no article.

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4. 4
   block (soap)nouncountable or uncountable

   A hard block of some material, such as soap.

   She bought a new cake of soap at the store.

   A cake of dried mud stuck to the bottom of his boot.

   UsageUsually a cake of soap.

   Similarblock

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5. 5
   verbtransitive

   To dry into a hard layer, or to cover something with a hard dry layer.

   Dust storms can cake the windows with sand.

   Mud from the field caked the bottom of his jeans.

   UsageUsually caked with mud or dirt.

   Similarcoat, encrust, crust, plaster, cover

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6. 6
   bread roundnouncountable or uncountable

   A small, flat piece of baked bread dough.

   The travelers baked a flat cake of bread over the campfire.

   They mixed flour and water and baked thin cakes on hot stones.

   Similarloaf, bannock, flatbread

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   nouncountable or uncountable

   A thin, flat round of fried batter, like a pancake.

   Dad made corn cakes for breakfast on Sunday.

   She flipped each cake in the pan when the edges turned brown.

   Similarpancake, flapjack, hotcake

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