cake
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- noun
- /keɪk/
- She baked a delicious cake for her friend's birthday party.
- a birthday cake
- a wedding cake
- chocolate cake
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Examples
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I almost dropped the cake.
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On her birthday, we get a little birthday cake and balloon; we will do that every year.
Academic text (2011) -
You can eat some of my birthday cake.
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Everyone had come to eat the white cake with the little silver balls on top.
Fiction book (1990) -
My father sets the Black Forest cake in front of me with a knife.
Fiction book (1990) -
Return to your home and make a cake for your new neighbors.
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When they brought in the cake, everybody in the place sang happy birthday to May Anna.
Fiction book (1990) -
She's out shopping for a birthday cake for April.
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Your bundt cake is ready.
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Wow, here is the finished cake which Caleb decorated.
Synonyms
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A small cake baked in a paper cup and usually topped with icing
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A cake made with chocolate and served as a dessert
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A cake made and decorated for a birthday, often with candles
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A decorated cake with layers made for a wedding celebration
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A rich cake with dried fruit, nuts, and pieces of citrus peel, often served at holidays
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A sweet cake or bread often flavored with cinnamon and nuts, eaten with coffee
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A light, airy cake that uses eggs, flour and sugar without butter or oil
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A dessert of ice cream shaped like a cake and decorated for parties
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A rich, heavy cake made with a lot of butter, sugar, eggs, and flour
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A sweet biscuit or small cake served with fruit and whipped cream
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A cake with two or more layers and sweet filling between
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A very light cake made only from egg whites, flour, and sugar
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A sweet baked cake with small pieces of coconut inside and on top
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A sweet cake with a thick crumbly topping often eaten with coffee
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A very light cake made with only egg whites and no butter
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A sweet spicy cake made with honey that people eat at holidays
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A flat food like a pancake made from cornmeal and cooked on a pan
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A light pale cake using only egg whites, flour, sugar, and butter
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A cake made with warm spices like cinnamon and nutmeg
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A small sweet cake or bun often made with dried fruit and served with tea
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A cake baked in a pan over sweet fruit then flipped so the fruit is on top
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A moist spiced cake that uses applesauce
Idioms
Compounds
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A very dark, rich chocolate cake that is moist and has a strong chocolate taste
- UK
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A sponge cake soaked in wine or sherry and decorated with almonds and candied fruit
- Specialized
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A pressed block of seeds left after their oil is removed and used as animal feed
- Specialized
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Solid material left after people remove oil from cotton seeds used to feed animals or help plants grow
- Indian
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Solid material left after oil is taken from cotton seeds used to feed animals or as fertilizer
- Indian
A solid left after squeezing neem seeds for oil that is used as a natural fertilizer and to control pests
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Etymology
The word cake comes from an old Norse word kaka, which meant a round baked 'lump' of dough. Think of pancake or cupcake, which are just different forms of that baked lump, so we call sweet baked desserts 'cake'.