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cake

(kāk)

1. A sweet baked food made of flour, liquid, eggs, and other ingredients, such as raising agents and flavorings.

2. A flat rounded mass of dough or batter, such as a pancake, that is baked or fried.

3. A flat rounded mass of hashed or chopped food that is baked or fried; a patty.

4. A shaped or molded piece, as of soap or ice.

5. A layer or deposit of compacted matter:a cake of grime in the oven.

v.caked,cak·ing,cakes

v.tr.

To cover or fill with a thick layer, as of compacted matter:a miner whose face was caked with soot.

v.intr.

To become formed into a compact or crusty mass:As temperatures dropped, the wet snow caked.

[Middle English, from Old Norsekaka.]

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cake

(keɪk)

1. (Cookery) a baked food, usually in loaf or layer form, typically made from a mixture of flour, sugar, and eggs

2. (Cookery) a flat thin mass of bread, esp unleavened bread

3. (Cookery) a shaped mass of dough or other food of similar consistency:a fish cake.

4.a mass, slab, or crust of a solidified or compressed substance, as of soap or ice

5.have one's cake and eat itto enjoy both of two desirable but incompatible alternatives

6.go like hot cakessell like hot cakesinformal to be sold very quickly or in large quantities

7.a piece of cakeinformal something that is easily achieved or obtained

8.take the cakeinformalchieflyUS to surpass all others, esp in stupidity, folly, etc

9.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.

10. (tr) to cover with a hard layer; encrust:the hull was caked with salt.

11.to form or be formed into a hardened mass

[C13: from Old Norsekaka; related to Danishkage, GermanKuchen]

ˈcakey,ˈcakyadj

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

cake

(keɪk)

n.,v.caked, cak•ing.n.

1. a sweet, baked, breadlike food, usu. containing flour, sugar, eggs, and flavoring and often shortening and baking powder or soda.

2. a flat, thin mass of bread, esp. unleavened bread.

3. a pancake; griddlecake.

4. a shaped or molded mass of other food: a fish cake.

5. a shaped or compressed mass: a cake of soap.

v.t.,v.i.

6. to form into a crust or compact mass.

Idioms:

1.piece of cake, something that can be done easily.

2.take the cake, to win the hypothetical prize.

[1200–50; Middle English < Old Norsekaka; akin to Middle Englishkechel little cake, GermanKuchen]

cake

- A Viking contribution, from Old Norse kaka, it is related to "cook"; cake first meant small, flat bread roll baked on both sides by being turned—as in pancake or potato cake.

Cake

a mass of matter moulded into a solid shape; used figuratively.

Examples: cake of customs, 1872; of dynamite, 1884; of ice; of laws and customs, 1879; of paint; of soap; of tobacco; of wax, 1528.

cake

Past participle:caked
Gerund:caking

Imperative
cake
cake

Present
I cake
you cake
he/she/it cakes
we cake
you cake
they cake

Preterite
I caked
you caked
he/she/it caked
we caked
you caked
they caked

Present Continuous
I am caking
you are caking
he/she/it is caking
we are caking
you are caking
they are caking

Present Perfect
I have caked
you have caked
he/she/it has caked
we have caked
you have caked
they have caked

Past Continuous
I was caking
you were caking
he/she/it was caking
we were caking
you were caking
they were caking

Past Perfect
I had caked
you had caked
he/she/it had caked
we had caked
you had caked
they had caked

Future
I will cake
you will cake
he/she/it will cake
we will cake
you will cake
they will cake

Future Perfect
I will have caked
you will have caked
he/she/it will have caked
we will have caked
you will have caked
they will have caked

Future Continuous
I will be caking
you will be caking
he/she/it will be caking
we will be caking
you will be caking
they will be caking

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been caking
you have been caking
he/she/it has been caking
we have been caking
you have been caking
they have been caking

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been caking
you will have been caking
he/she/it will have been caking
we will have been caking
you will have been caking
they will have been caking

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been caking
you had been caking
he/she/it had been caking
we had been caking
you had been caking
they had been caking

Conditional
I would cake
you would cake
he/she/it would cake
we would cake
you would cake
they would cake

Past Conditional
I would have caked
you would have caked
he/she/it would have caked
we would have caked
you would have caked
they would have caked

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Noun	1.	cake - a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate" bar block - a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides); "the pyramids were built with large stone blocks" tablet - a small flat compressed cake of some substance; "a tablet of soap"
	2.	cake - small flat mass of chopped food patty dish - a particular item of prepared food; "she prepared a special dish for dinner" fish cake,fish ball - a fried ball or patty of flaked fish and mashed potatoes
	3.	cake - baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat baked goods - foods (like breads and cakes and pastries) that are cooked in an oven applesauce cake - moist spicy cake containing applesauce baba - a small cake leavened with yeast birthday cake - decorated cake served at a birthday party cheesecake - made with sweetened cream cheese and eggs and cream baked in a crumb crust chiffon cake - very light cake chocolate cake - cake containing chocolate coconut cake - cake containing shredded coconut in batter and frosting coffee cake,coffeecake - a cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee crumb cake - cake or coffeecake topped with a mixture of sugar and butter and flour crumpet - a thick soft cake with a porous texture; cooked on a griddle cupcake - small cake baked in a muffin tin Eccles cake - a flat round cake of sweetened pastry filled with dried fruit fruitcake - a rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on gateau - any of various rich and elaborate cakes sponge cake - a light porous cake made with eggs and flour and sugar without shortening bridecake,wedding cake - a rich cake with two or more tiers and covered with frosting and decorations; served at a wedding reception white cake - cake made without egg yolks spice cake - cake flavored with spices gingerbread - cake flavored with ginger pound cake - rich loaf cake made of a pound each of butter and sugar and flour layer cake - cake having layers held together by a sweet filling and usually covered with frosting torte - rich cake usually covered with cream and fruit or nuts; originated in Austria petit four - small (individual) frosted and ornamented cake prune cake - moist cake containing prunes that have been made into a puree jumbal,jumble - small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie savarin - a sponge cake baked in a ring mold Boston cream pie - layer cake filled with custard skillet cake,upside-down cake - batter baked atop a layer of sweetened fruit then turned upside down so fruit is on top honey cake - a spicy cake partially sweetened with honey marble cake - made of light and dark batter very lightly blended genoise - rich and delicate Italian sponge cake seed cake,seedcake - a sweet cake flavored with sesame or caraway seeds and lemon teacake - any of various small cakes or cookies often served with tea cookie,cooky,biscuit - any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term) friedcake - small cake in the form of a ring or twist or ball or strip fried in deep fat battercake,flannel cake,flannel-cake,flapcake,flapjack,hot cake,hotcake,pancake,griddlecake - a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle waffle - pancake batter baked in a waffle iron rock cake - a small cake with a hard surface said to resemble a rock Victoria sandwich,Victoria sponge - a cake consisting of two layers of sponge cake with a jelly filling in between
Verb	1.	cake - form a coat over; "Dirt had coated her face" coat spread over,cover - form a cover over; "The grass covered the grave"

cake

noun

1.gateauWould you like some chocolate cake?

2.block,bar,slab,lump,cube,loaf,massHe bought a cake of soap.

verb

1.solidify,dry,consolidate,harden,thicken,congeal,coagulate,ossify,encrustThe blood had begun to cake and turn brown.

2.cover,coat,plaster,smear,spreadHer hair was caked with mud.

Cakes and pastries

almond cake, angel cakeor angel food cake, Bakewell tart, baklava, Banbury cake, Battenburg cake, black bun, Black forest gateau, brownie, carrot cake, cherry cake, chocolate cake, Christmas cake, coconut cake, coffee kiss, cream cake, cream puff, crulleror kruller (U.S. & Canad.), crumpet, cupcake, Danish pastry, devil's food cake, doughnutor donut, drop sconeor pancake (Scot.), dumpling, Dundee cake, Eccles cake, eclair, fairy cake, flapjack, frangipane, French pastry, fruitcake, fudge cake, gateau, Genoa cake, Genoese sponge, gingerbread, hot cross bun, johnny cake (Austral.), jumbleor jumbal, koeksister (S. Afr.), kuchen, kuglehopf, ladyfingeror sponge finger, lamington (Austral. & N.Z.), lardy cake, layer cake, Linzer torte, Madeira cake, madeleine, marble cake, meringue, millefeuille, mince pie, muffin, pancake, pandowdy, panettone, parkin, petit four, pound cake, profiterole, queencake, rock cake, rum baba, Sally Lunn, sandwich cake, scone, seedcake, Selkirk bannock, simnel cake, singing hinny, sponge cake, stollen, swiss roll, tart, teabread, teacake, tipsy cake, torte, turnover, upside-down cake, Victoria sponge, wedding cake, yumyum (Scot.)

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

cake

verb

To make or become physically hard:

concrete,congeal,dry,harden,indurate,petrify,set,solidify.

Translations

قالَب صابونقُرْص كَعْككَعْكَهيَكْسو

dortkarbanátekkoláčkoláčekkostka

kagestykkesjaske tilbøffrikadelle

Kuchen Riegel Schwarte Torte verkrusten

τούρτα κέικ

kukotorto

pastel torta tarta pastillacake

kakku

gâteau pain brique

kolač

darabpogácsarászáradsüteménytábla

kakamatarkakaòekjasápustykki

torta dolce focaccia gioco da ragazzi incrostarsi

ケーキ

케이크

placenta

apliptiblynasgabalaskeksaspaplotėlis

apliptgabalskūkapārklātplācenis

cake gebak stuk taart vastkoeken

kake klumpe seg stykke -bolle

ciasto ciastko

bolo

торт пирожное

koláčtortazalepiťplackakarbonátka

kolač

tårtakaka

ขนมเค้ก

kek pasta…kalıbıkalıpkalıp…

bánhbánh ngọt

使块结块状物糕蛋糕饼

cake

[keɪk]

A.N

1. (large) →tartaf,pastelm,tortaf (LAm); (small) →pastelm,quequem (LAm); (sponge, plain) →bizcochom,panmdulce
the way the national cake is divided (fig) →la formaen que estárepartida latartaor estárepartido elpastel nacional
it's a piece of cake →espan comido, estátirado
to goor sell like hot cakes →venderse comorosquillas
to have one's cake and eat ithe wants to have his cake and eat it →quierenadar yguardar laropa
that takes the cake! →¡es elcolmo!

2. (=bar) [of chocolate] →barraf; [of soap] →pastillaf

B.VTcaked with mud →embarrado,cubierto debarro seco

C.VI [blood] →coagularse; [mud] →endurecerse

D.CPDcake mixN →polvosmpl parahacer pasteles
cake shopN →pasteleríaf
cake tinN (for baking) →moldem parapastel; (for storing) →cajaf depastel

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

cake

[ˈkeɪk]n

(large) →gâteaum;(small) →pâtisserief
it's a piece of cake (=easy) →c'est unjeu d'enfant
he wants to have his cake and eat it, he wants to have his cake and eat it too →il veut avoir lebeurre et l'argent dubeurre
to sell like hot cakes →se vendre comme des petits pains
to take the cake(US) →être lebouquet, êtrele comble

cake of soap →savonnettef

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

cake

→Kuchenm;(= gateau) →Tortef;(= bun, individual cake) →Gebäckstücknt, →Teilchennt (dial);cakes and pastries →Gebäcknt;a piece ofcake(fig inf) →einKinderspielnt, →ein Klacksm (inf);he/that takes thecake(inf) →das ist dasSchärfste(inf); (negatively also) →dasschlägt demFass denBoden aus;to sell like hotcakes →weggehen wiewarme Semmeln(inf);you can’t have yourcake and eat it (prov) →beidesauf einmal geht nicht;he wants to have hiscake and eat it (prov) →er will das eine, ohne das andere zulassen

(of soap) →Stücknt, →Riegelm;(of chocolate) →Tafelf

vt →dick einschmieren;my shoes arecaked withor in mud →meineSchuhe sindvöllig verdrecktor dreckverkrustet

vi →festtrocknen, eineKruste bilden

cake

cake mix

n →Backmischungf

cake mixture

n →Kuchenteigm

cake pan

n (US) →Kuchenformf

cake shop

n →Konditoreif

cake tin

n (Brit, for baking) →Kuchenformf; (for storage) →Kuchenbüchsef

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

cake

[keɪk]

1.n

a. (large) →torta; (small) →pasticcino
piece of cake →fetta ditorta
it's a piece of cake (fam) →è una cosafacileor da nulla
driving is a piece of cake →non ci vuole niente aguidare
to sell like hot cakes (fam) →andare a ruba
he wants to have his cake and eat it (fig) →vuole labotte piena e lamoglie ubriaca

b. (of wax) →tavoletta
cake of soap →saponetta

2.vtto cake (with) →incrostare (di)

3.vi (blood) →raggrumarsi; (mud) →incrostarsi

cake

(keik) noun

1. a food made by baking a mixture of flour, fat, eggs, sugaretc.a piece of cake;a plate of cream cakes;a Christmas cake. koek كَعْكَه торта bolo dort, koláč, koláček der Kuchen kageκέικpastel kook کیک kakkugâteauעוגה केक torta, kolač tészta, sütemény kue kakadolce,torta ケーキ 케이크 pyragas, pyragaitis, keksas kūka; torte kekgebakkaketort کیک bolo prăjiturăторт;пирожное koláč, torta kolač kolač tårta, [mjuk] kaka เค้กpasta,kek 蛋糕 торт, тістечко میدے ، چکنائی ، انڈوں اور چینی کےآمیزے سے تیار کردہ ایک ٹھوس خوراک bánh ngọt 糕，饼

2. a piece of other food pressed into shape.fishcakes;oatcakes. koekieقُرْص кейк bolinho placka, karbanátek kuchenartig geformte Masse frikadelle; bøf -κεφτές (ως β΄ συνθ.)pastel;tortita;croqueta kakk, pall شامی؛ کنجاله -palacroquette, galette d'avoineקציצה केक की शक्ल में काटी गयी खाने की अन्य चीज komad pogácsa kue matarkakafrittella,crocchetta 固めた食品 케이크 모양의 식품 paplotėlis, blynas, sklindis plācenis kekkoekje -kake, –bolleplacek د کیک په توګه جوړیدل bolinho crochetă; turtăкотлета;лепешка karbonátka, placka pecivo komad bulle, kaka อาหารที่ปั้นเป็นชิ้น kalıp... 餅狀食物 брикет خوراک کے دیگر اجزاء کو دبا کر کیک کی شکل دینا miếng bánh饼状食物

3. a flattened hard mass.a cake of soap. koekie قالَب صابون блокче barra kostka, kus der Riegel stykkeπλάκαpastilla tükk قالب palapainגוש कोई चपटी सख्त चीज komad darab sepotong sápustykkipezzo かたまり 케이크 모양의 물건 gabalas gabals bukustuk,blokstykke,blokkkawałek كالب barra bucată; calupкусок kus, kúsok, tabuľka kos komad bit, stycke ก้อนแบนkalıp, ...kalıbı 壓平硬塊 брусок سخت چپٹی چیز , ٹکیہ bánh块状物

verb

to cover in the form of a dried mass.His shoes were caked with mud. aanpak يَكْسو втвърдявам empastar špinavé, olepenéverkrusten indsmøre; sjaske tilσκεπάζω estar cubierto de paakunud kihina katma پوسته بستن peittääformer une croûte מְכוּסֶה कीचड़ इत्यादि में सनना stvrdnuti se, nakupiti rászárad meliputi þekjaincrostare 固まりつく 덩어리로 뒤덮다 aplipti aplipt; pārklāt disalutibedekkendekke,klumpe seg pokrywać, oblepiać پوست ليكنه empastar a prinde o crustă облеплять zlepiť sa, olepiť, tvrdnúť strditi se zaprljati forma till en kaka, bilda skorpa på, täcka ติดกรังเป็นก้อน kaplamak 結成硬塊沾在...上 налипати کسی سخت چیز سے ڈھانپنا đóng bánh使块结

cake

→كَعْك dort kageKuchenτούρταpastel,tarta kakkugâteau kolačtorta ケーキ 케이크cakekakeciastoboloпирожное tårta ขนมเค้กkek bánh ngọt蛋糕

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