Definitions for cake

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Spelling: [keyk]

IPA: /keɪk/

Cake is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in cake (acek).

Definitions for cake

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. pancake; griddlecake.
4. a shaped or molded mass of other food:
5. a shaped or compressed mass:
6. Animal Husbandry. a compacted block of soybeans, cottonseeds, or linseeds from which the oil has been pressed, usually used as a feed or feed supplement for cattle.

Idioms

1. a piece of cake, Informal. something easily done:
2. take the cake, Informal. to surpass all others, especially in some undesirable quality; be extraordinary or unusual: to win first prize.

verb (used with object)

1. to form into a crust or compact mass.

verb (used without object)

1. to become formed into a crust or compact mass.

Origin of cake

1200-50; Middle English Old Norse kaka; akin to Middle English kechel little cake, German Kuchen; see cookie

Examples for cake

Its texture is practically the same as that of the other cake.

It is used for the icing of cake or the making of French candies.

Now, it is the most traditional and celebrated Christmas cake in Germany—and definitely not associated with fasting.

Now both breweries are fighting to retain their half of the cake.

Only the whites of the eggs are used, and so the cake is white in color.

And aside from doing the requisite things needed to seize the majority, there was icing on the cake, too.

They should be applied to the cake in the same way as icings.

The Stollen was paraded through the city of Dresden, and later an appointed “Stollen girl” cut the cake.

Mom Beck had stepped into the pantry for more eggs for the cake she was making.

He had a special knife designed to cut the dense loaf, and a ceremony to precede cutting the cake.