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cake  (kk)
n.
1. A sweet baked food made of flour, liquid, eggs, and other ingredients, such as raising agents and flavorings.
2. A flat rounded mass of dough or batter, such as a pancake that is baked or fried.
3. A flat rounded mass of hashed or chopped food that is baked or fried; a patty.
4. A shaped or molded piece, as of soap or ice.
5. A layer or deposit of compacted matter: a cake of grime in the oven.
v. caked, cak·ing, cakes
v.tr.
To cover or fill with a thick layer, as of compacted matter: a miner whose face was caked with soot.
v.intr.
To become formed into a compact or crusty mass: As temperatures dropped, the wet snow caked.

[Middle English, from Old Norse kaka.]


cake  /kek/  n. 1 [C;U] a sweet baked food made of a mixture of flour, eggs, milk, sugar, etc.: He ate some chocolate cake. 2 [C] s.t. shaped like a cake: She bought a cake of soap. 3 [C] a flat, round baked or fried portion of batter (potatoes, chopped fish, etc.): We had pancakes (fishcakes, etc.) for dinner. 4 a piece of cake: s.t. that is simple to do, an easy task: That job is so easy; its a piece of cake! 5 to have ones cake and eat it too: to want to keep s.t., like money, but also want to spend or use it: He wants to save money, but he buys fancy cars and expensive clothes; he wants to have his cake and eat it, too.
v. [T] caked, caking, cakes to put s.t. on s.t. in large amounts or layers that harden: Mud (was) caked on the farmers boots. cake

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