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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.
4.
a shaped or molded mass of other food: a fish cake.
5.
EXPANDa shaped or compressed mass: a cake of soap; a cake of ice.
verb (used with object)
7.
to form into a crust or compact mass.
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verb (used without object)
Idioms8.
to become formed into a crust or compact mass.
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
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.
8. harden, solidify, dry, congeal.
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