cake
Noun:
- A sweet baked dessert: A food item typically made from flour, sugar, eggs, and fat, mixed together and baked.
- A shaped or compressed mass: A small, flat, often round mass of chopped or compressed food or other substance.
- A block of a solid substance: A shaped, solid piece of a material like soap, wax, or tobacco.
Verb:
- To form or cover with a thick or hard layer: To become covered with a layer of something that hardens or dries.
Noun:
- She baked a chocolate cake for the birthday party.
- For dinner, we had salmon cakes with a side salad.
- He bought a cake of soap from the artisan market.
Verb:
- Mud had caked on his boots after the long hike.
- The paint caked in the lid of the can because it wasn't closed properly.
"a piece of cake" (idiom): Something very easy to do.
- The math test was a piece of cake; I finished it in twenty minutes.
"to have one's cake and eat it too" (idiom): To want to enjoy the benefits of two mutually exclusive options. Often used in the negative: "You can't have your cake and eat it too."
- He wants a high salary without more responsibility, but you can't have your cake and eat it too.
"to take the cake" (idiom): To be the most extreme or surprising example of something (often negative).
- All his stories are unbelievable, but this one takes the cake.
Cakey or Caky (adj): Having a dry, thick consistency that resembles cake, often used for makeup.
- The foundation looked cakey on her skin.
Fishcake (n): A patty made from chopped fish, potatoes, and seasoning, fried or baked.
- Pancake (n): A thin, flat cake of batter fried on both sides.
- Noun (dessert): Gateau, pastry, torte.
- Noun (mass): Patty, lump, block, bar.
- Verb: Encrust, coat, cover.
(Note: "Cake" is not commonly used in phrasal verb constructions. Its verbal use is typically straightforward.)
"Sell like hotcakes": To be sold very quickly and in large quantities.
- The new video game is selling like hotcakes.
"The icing on the cake": Something that makes a good situation even better.
- Winning the scholarship was great, and the congratulatory letter from the dean was the icing on the cake.
- baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat
- small flat mass of chopped food
- a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
- a bar of chocolate
- form a coat over
- Dirt had coated her face