CAKE

cake, bar

(noun) a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); “a bar of chocolate”

cake

(noun) baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat

patty, cake

(noun) small flat mass of chopped food

coat, cake

(verb) form a coat over; “Dirt had coated her face”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

cake (countable and uncountable, plural cakes)

A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.

Synonym: gâteau

A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.

A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.

A block of any of various dense materials.

Synonym: block

(slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.

Synonyms: piece of cake, Thesaurus:easy thing

(slang) Money.

Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.

(slang) A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.

Verb

cake (third-person singular simple present cakes, present participle caking, simple past and past participle caked)

(transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.

Synonyms: crust, encrust

To form into a cake, or mass.

Etymology 2

Verb

cake (third-person singular simple present cakes, present participle caking, simple past and past participle caked)

(UK, dialect, obsolete, intransitive) To cackle like a goose.

Anagrams

• akçe

Source: Wiktionary

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Cake, n. Etym: [OE. cake, kaak; akin to Dan. kage, Sw. & Icel. kaka, D. koek, G.kuchem, OHG. chuocho.]

1. A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.

2. A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.

3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.

4. A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake. Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood. Dryden. Cake urchin (Zoöl), any species of flat sea urchins belonging to the Clypeastroidea.

– Oil cake the refuse of flax seed, cotton seed, or other vegetable substance from which oil has been expressed, compacted into a solid mass, and used as food for cattle, for manure, or for other purposes.

– To have one's cake dough, to fail or be disappointed in what one has undertaken or expected. Shak.

Cake, v. i.

Definition: To form into a cake, or mass.

Cake, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Caked; p. pr. & vb. n. Caking.]

Definition: To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate. Clotted blood that caked within. Addison.

Cake, v. i.

Definition: To cackle as a goose. [Prov. Eng.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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