cake

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Usage notes 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 See also 1.3.4 Synonyms 1.3.5 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Synonyms 1.4.2 Translations 2 Fijian 2.1 Adverb 3 French 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Pronunciation 3.3 Noun

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[edit] Etymology

From Old English kaak; akin to Danish kage, Dutch koek, German Kuchen, Swedish kaka Icelandic kaka, and Norwegian kake.

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• enPR: kāk, IPA: /keɪk/, SAMPA: /keIk/
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• Rhymes: -eɪk

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cake (countable and uncountable; plural cakes)

1. A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, eggs, and baked in an oven.
2. A block of any of various dense materials.
   • A cake of soap.
3. (slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
4. (slang) money

[edit] Usage notes

• In British usage, a biscuit is distinct from a cake; the former is generally hard but becomes soft when stale, whereas the latter is generally soft but becomes hard when stale.

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• (dessert): gâteau
• (block): block
• (easy task): see piece of cake

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to cake (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.
   • His shoes are caked with mud.

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• (coat with a crust of material): crust, encrust

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cake

1. up

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[edit] Etymology

From English cake.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɛk/, /kek/

[edit] Noun

cake m. (plural cakes)

1. fruitcake (containing rum).
2. quick bread (a smallish loaf-shaped baked good which may be sweet like an English cake or salty and with bits of meat. See insert).