Definition of "cake"

cake

/keɪk/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural cakes
1. A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
2. A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
4. A block of any of various dense materials.
  Quotations
  Cakes of rustling ice come rolling down the flood.
  1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
5. (slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
6. (slang) Money.
7. Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
  Quotations
  "It looks like the cake [and eat it] philosophy is still alive." Quote attributed to Donald Tusk.
  2018, The Guardian, "UK's aspirations for post-Brexit trade deal an illusion, says Donald Tusk", Daniel Boffey, Peter Walker, Jennifer Rankin, and Heather Stewart, 23 February 2018
8. (slang) A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.
9. (pyrotechnics) A multi-shot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
verb
third-person singular simple present cakes, present participle caking, simple past and past participle caked
1. (transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
2. (transitive) To form into a cake, or mass.
3. (intransitive) Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.
  Quotations
  Once we fell asleep, and, I think, must have slept for some hours, for, when we woke, our limbs were quite stiff, and the blood from our blows and scratches had caked, and was hard and dry upon our skin.
  1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887

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