cake Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
    bar.
    • a bar of chocolate
  2. noun small flat mass of chopped food
    patty.
  3. noun baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat
  4. verb form a coat over
    coat.
    • Dirt had coated her face

WordNet

Cake noun
Etymology
OE. cake, kaak; akin to Dan. kage, Sw. & Icel. kaka, D. koek, G.kuchem, OHG. chuocho.
Definitions
  1. A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
  2. A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
  3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
  4. A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake.
    Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood. Dryden.
    Shak.
Cake intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To form into a cake, or mass.
Cake intransitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Caked ; present participle & verbal noun Caking
Definitions
  1. To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.
    Clotted blood that caked within. Addison.
Cake intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To cackle as a goose. Prov. Eng.

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