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cake

   [keyk] noun, verb, caked, cak·ing.
noun
1.
a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring.
2.
a flat, thin mass of bread, especially unleavened bread.
3.
pancake; griddlecake.
4.
a shaped or molded mass of other food: a fish cake.
5.
a shaped or compressed mass: a cake of soap; a cake of ice.
EXPAND
6.
Animal Husbandry. a compacted block of soybeans, cottonseeds, or linseeds from which the oil has been pressed, usually used as a feed or feed supplement for cattle.
COLLAPSE
verb (used with object)
7.
to form into a crust or compact mass.

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verb (used without object)
8.
to become formed into a crust or compact mass.
Idioms
9.
a piece of cake, Informal. something easily done: She thought her first solo flight was a piece of cake.
10.
take the cake, Informal.
a.
to surpass all others, especially in some undesirable quality; be extraordinary or unusual: His arrogance takes the cake.
b.
to win first prize.
Origin:
1200–50; Middle English < Old Norse kaka; akin to Middle English kechel little cake, German Kuchen; see cookie

Related forms
cak·y, cak·ey, adjective
non·cak·ing, adjective, noun
un·cake, verb (used with object), -caked, -cak·ing.

Synonyms
8. harden, solidify, dry, congeal.

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cake
c.1600, from cake (n.). Caked "thickly encrusted" is from 1922.
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cake definition


  1. n.
    money. (From bread, dough.) : I can't scrape together enough cake to do the job.

  2. Go to cakes. :
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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