cake
- noun
- /keɪk/
- Four waiters carry a candlelit cake to the table and sing "Happy Birthday" in English.
- rice cakes
- bean cakes
We've got nicotine patch, screen of death, blue, burnt crab cake drizzle, dandruff, shimmer.
- We've got nicotine patch, screen of death, blue, burnt crab cake drizzle, dandruff, shimmer.
- I mean, I don't know this whole like crab cake kind of I've done that.
Examples
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The menu featured a delicious slice of lemon cake topped with icing.
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Now, I'll cut the cake.
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Why are sheet cakes more expensive?
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I ordered a large Diet Coke and a slice of Black Forest cake and attacked my cheeseburger.
Fiction book (1990) -
My mom makes spicy rice cakes with Shin ramen.
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I waited in the living room with a three-day-old sheet cake and Ma Dear's large-print Bible.
Fiction book (1994) -
I baked a chocolate cake for my friend's birthday.
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After dinner, we enjoyed a small cake with fresh strawberries.
Synonyms
A small flat cake of ground meat or vegetables cooked to eat
A small fried patty made from flaked fish mixed with potatoes
A flat food like a pancake made from cornmeal and cooked on a pan
A thin, flat food that people make from oats and eat with butter or cheese
Idioms
Compounds
A very dark, rich chocolate cake that is moist and has a strong chocolate taste
- Indian
Solid material left after oil is taken from cotton seeds used to feed animals or as fertilizer
- Specialized
Solid material left after people remove oil from cotton seeds used to feed animals or help plants grow
- Indian
A solid left after squeezing neem seeds for oil that is used as a natural fertilizer and to control pests
- Specialized
A pressed block of seeds left after their oil is removed and used as animal feed
- UK
A sponge cake soaked in wine or sherry and decorated with almonds and candied fruit
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Surface Forms
Etymology
A cake of fish or potato is a small flat 'lump' made to eat and comes from the same root kaka. So cooks call these small patties 'cakes' because they are formed into a single, shaped serving.