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cake

cake

108 1.0
A small flat piece of food often made from fish or potato
  • noun
  • /keɪk/
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  • 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.

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Examples

  • The menu featured a delicious slice of lemon cake topped with icing.

  • Now, I'll cut the cake.

  • Why are sheet cakes more expensive?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • After dinner, we enjoyed a small cake with fresh strawberries.

Synonyms

patty
vscake
46 2.1

A small flat cake of ground meat or vegetables cooked to eat

is any small flat mass not limited to shaped meat or vegetable portions
fish cake
vscake
2 2.0

A small fried patty made from flaked fish mixed with potatoes

is a general small flat mass not restricted to seafood or frying
corn cake
vscake
  • US
1 2.0

A flat food like a pancake made from cornmeal and cooked on a pan

is a general small flat mass not restricted to grainmeal preparations
oatcake
vscake
  • UK
1 4.2

A thin, flat food that people make from oats and eat with butter or cheese

is a small flat mass not limited to thin unleavened grain snacks

Idioms

piece of cake
  • Informal
51 1.0

Something very easy to do

to take the cake
  • Informal
14 7.6

The most extreme example, often surprising in a bad or silly way

10 3.1

An extra good thing that makes a situation better

Compounds

48 1.0

A cake made and decorated for a birthday, often with candles

A cake made with chocolate and served as a dessert

29 1.0

A decorated cake with layers made for a wedding celebration

9 1.6

A sweet cake or bread often flavored with cinnamon and nuts, eaten with coffee

8 1.2

A rich, heavy cake made with a lot of butter, sugar, eggs, and flour

7 3.2

A ring-shaped cake baked in a pan with wavy sides and a hole in the middle

7 1.0

A packaged set of dry ingredients for making a cake that you add eggs and water to

7 1.8

A light, airy cake that uses eggs, flour and sugar without butter or oil

A dessert of ice cream shaped like a cake and decorated for parties

5 1.3

A cake with two or more layers and sweet filling between

3 2.9

A very light cake made with only egg whites and no butter

3 1.0

A sweet baked cake with small pieces of coconut inside and on top

A cake you bake with fruit on the bottom then flip so it sits on top

2 2.0

A sweet cake with a thick crumbly topping often eaten with coffee

2 2.0

A small fried patty made from flaked fish mixed with potatoes

2 1.0

A light pale cake using only egg whites, flour, sugar, and butter

A rich cake with dried fruit and sweet icing that people eat at Christmas

1 2.5

A sweet spicy cake made with honey that people eat at holidays

1 2.0

A flat food like a pancake made from cornmeal and cooked on a pan

1 8.0

A flat cornmeal cake cooked like a pancake on a griddle

1 1.8

A cake made with warm spices like cinnamon and nutmeg

yeast cake
  • Archaic
1 3.0

A small solid block that you use in baking to make bread dough rise

A thin pancake made with buckwheat flour often served for breakfast

1 1.0

A metal pan people use to bake cakes

cake walk
  • Informal
1 1.3

A very easy task that needs little effort

1 2.8

A light soft cake made with oil and eggs

A very dark, rich chocolate cake that is moist and has a strong chocolate taste

1 2.5

A very light cake made only from egg whites, flour, and sugar

1 8.2

A type of cornbread wrapped in leaves and baked in hot ashes

1 5.6

A rich, firm sponge cake with a close, buttery texture

1 1.9

A cake with light and dark batters mixed to make a swirled look

1 3.7

A chilled dessert with layers of cookies and whipped cream

1 3.5

A sweet cake with seeds like caraway and a little lemon

2.2

A shaped pan used for baking cakes so they take that shape

6.2

A solid block of rich food made for cows to eat

codfish cake
  • Canadian
3.5

A small fried or baked cake made from salt cod and potatoes

cotton cake
  • Indian
6.0

Solid material left after oil is taken from cotton seeds used to feed animals or as fertilizer

cottonseed cake
  • Specialized
5.8

Solid material left after people remove oil from cotton seeds used to feed animals or help plants grow

8.9

A small, round, flat pastry filled with currants or other dried fruit

A moist spiced cake that uses applesauce

flannel-cake
  • Archaic
7.7

A thin flat cake cooked on a hot pan like a pancake

5.5

A thin pancake fried on both sides and often served for breakfast

4.7

A cooked patty made from imitation crab and other ingredients

1.0

A flat round cake made from thin batter and cooked on both sides on a hot pan

journey cake
  • Archaic
8.0

A thin cornbread cooked like a pancake on a hot pan

neem cake
  • Indian
9.3

A solid left after squeezing neem seeds for oil that is used as a natural fertilizer and to control pests

A moist cake made with pureed prunes

3.7

A small rough cake with dried fruit, hard outside and soft inside

oil cake
  • Specialized
6.2

A pressed block of seeds left after their oil is removed and used as animal feed

7.7

A sponge cake soaked in wine or sherry and decorated with almonds and candied fruit

9.9

A flat bread made from cornmeal by the Shawnee people

6.3

A cake baked in a pan over sweet fruit then flipped so the fruit is on top

A light, soft cake flavored with vanilla

How Big

cake
108 1.0
patty
46 2.1
cutlet
12 3.6
morsel
28 3.2

Surface Forms

cake singular
cakes plural

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.