CAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cake mean? 

• CAKE (noun)
  The noun CAKE has 3 senses:

1. a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)

2. small flat mass of chopped food

3. baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat

  Familiarity information: CAKE used as a noun is uncommon.

• CAKE (verb)
  The verb CAKE has 1 sense:

1. form a coat over

  Familiarity information: CAKE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bar; cake

Context example:

a bar of chocolate

Hypernyms ("cake" is a kind of...):

block (a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cake"):

tablet (a small flat compressed cake of some substance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small flat mass of chopped food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

cake; patty

Hypernyms ("cake" is a kind of...):

dish (a particular item of prepared food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cake"):

fish ball; fish cake (a fried ball or patty of flaked fish and mashed potatoes)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("cake" is a kind of...):

baked goods (foods (like breads and cakes and pastries) that are cooked in an oven)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cake"):

layer cake (cake having layers held together by a sweet filling and usually covered with frosting)

applesauce cake (moist spicy cake containing applesauce)

torte (rich cake usually covered with cream and fruit or nuts; originated in Austria)

petit four (small (individual) frosted and ornamented cake)

prune cake (moist cake containing prunes that have been made into a puree)

jumbal; jumble (small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie)

savarin (a sponge cake baked in a ring mold)

Boston cream pie (layer cake filled with custard)

skillet cake; upside-down cake (batter baked atop a layer of sweetened fruit then turned upside down so fruit is on top)

honey cake (a spicy cake partially sweetened with honey)

marble cake (made of light and dark batter very lightly blended)

genoise (rich and delicate Italian sponge cake)

seed cake; seedcake (a sweet cake flavored with sesame or caraway seeds and lemon)

teacake (any of various small cakes or cookies often served with tea)

biscuit; cookie; cooky (any of various small flat sweet cakes ('biscuit' is the British term))

friedcake (small cake in the form of a ring or twist or ball or strip fried in deep fat)

battercake; flannel-cake; flannel cake; flapcake; flapjack; griddlecake; hot cake; hotcake; pancake (a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle)

waffle (pancake batter baked in a waffle iron)

rock cake (a small cake with a hard surface said to resemble a rock)

Victoria sandwich; Victoria sponge (a cake consisting of two layers of sponge cake with a jelly filling in between)

gingerbread (cake flavored with ginger)

baba (a small cake leavened with yeast)

birthday cake (decorated cake served at a birthday party)

cheesecake (made with sweetened cream cheese and eggs and cream baked in a crumb crust)

chiffon cake (very light cake)

chocolate cake (cake containing chocolate)

coconut cake (cake containing shredded coconut in batter and frosting)

coffee cake; coffeecake (a cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee)

crumb cake (cake or coffeecake topped with a mixture of sugar and butter and flour)

crumpet (a thick soft cake with a porous texture; cooked on a griddle)

cupcake (small cake baked in a muffin tin)

Eccles cake (a flat round cake of sweetened pastry filled with dried fruit)

fruitcake (a rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on)

gateau (any of various rich and elaborate cakes)

sponge cake (a light porous cake made with eggs and flour and sugar without shortening)

bridecake; wedding cake (a rich cake with two or more tiers and covered with frosting and decorations; served at a wedding reception)

white cake (cake made without egg yolks)

spice cake (cake flavored with spices)

pound cake (rich loaf cake made of a pound each of butter and sugar and flour)

• CAKE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they cake    ... he / she / it cakes   
Past simple: caked   
Past participle: caked   
-ing form: caking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Form a coat over

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cake; coat

Context example:

Dirt had coated her face

Hypernyms (to "cake" is one way to...):

cover; spread over (form a cover over)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

The icing on the cake will be that Uranus, planet of surprise, will send this new moon eclipse a perfect electric greeting from his perch in your sixth house of work-a-day matters.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Cake and wine; yesterday was baking-day, so poor sick grandmother is to have something good, to make her stronger.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I ground and beat them between two stones; then took water, and made them into a paste or cake, which I toasted at the fire and eat warm with milk.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

"Could you spare me some of your cake? I really need some, I have so much company, and I can't make such delicious stuff as yours," asked Meg soberly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Well, I have been twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Peggotty's promised letter—what a comfortable letter it was!—arrived before “the half” was many weeks old; and with it a cake in a perfect nest of oranges, and two bottles of cowslip wine.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The process is like being given a slice of cake and trying to figure out the recipe by tasting it.

(Experiments recreate aromatic flavors of Titan, NASA)

The resulting lyophilized cake maintains its structure and stability over an extended period of time, and is intended for reconstitution prior to administration.

(Cake Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

Ma foi! they make as much louster as a Scotch army, where every man fills himself with girdle-cakes, and sits up all night to blow upon the toodle-pipe.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I'll ask cook to bake you a little cake, and then you shall help me to look over your drawers; for I am soon to pack your trunk.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)