cake
IPA: kˈeɪk
noun
- A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
- A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
- A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
- A block of any of various dense materials.
- (slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
- (slang) Money.
- Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
- (slang) A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.
- (pyrotechnics) A multi-shot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
verb
- (transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
- (transitive) To form into a cake, or mass.
- (intransitive) Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.
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Examples of "cake" in Sentences
- The man baked the cake.
- The cream is on the cake.
- The cake is in the oven now.
- The cake was made by the fiancee.
- Clam cakes and crab cakes are varieties of fritter.
- The recipe isn't central to the plot, but the cake is.
- It refers to the lightness of cakes, bread and some sauces.
- A tipsy cake is a sweet dessert cake, a variety of the English trifle.
- Jump on the cookie sandwiches, and then work your way to the top of the cake.
- This seemed a little like pepping up a bread pudding recipe by treating sliced pound cake as a kind of bread.
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