cake


Definition: Meaning of, cake in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / keɪk /

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  1. [uncountable and countable] a soft sweet food made by baking a mixture of flour, butter, sugar, and eggs
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  2. fish/rice/potato etc cake fish, rice etc that has been formed into a flat round shape and then cooked
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  3. [countable] a small block of something
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  4. be a piece of cake spoken to be very easy
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  5. take the cake British English informal to be worse than anything else you can imagine
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  6. have your cake and eat it British English American English spoken to have all the advantages of something without its disadvantages
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  7. a slice of the cake British English a share of the profit, help etc that is available
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  1. be caked with/in something to be covered with a layer of something soft or wet that becomes thick and hard when it dries
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  2. [intransitive] if a substance cakes, it forms a thick hard layer when it dries
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cake used in phrases

  • Bundt cake
    1. a sweet cake shaped like a ring, made in a Bundt pan
  • Christmas cake (noun)
    1. a special cake that people eat in Britain at Christmas
  • Dundee cake (noun)
    1. a British cake made with fruit and nuts
  • Eccles cake (noun)
    1. British English a round cake filled with CURRANT s (= type of dried fruit)
  • Madeira cake (noun)
    1. a kind of plain yellow cake
  • Shawnee cake (noun)
    1. form of johnnycake
  • angel cake (noun)
    1. a light sponge cake made without egg yolks
  • angel food cake (noun)
    1. a light sponge cake made without egg yolks
  • applesauce cake (noun)
    1. moist spicy cake containing applesauce
  • birthday cake (noun)
    1. decorated cake served at a birthday party
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