- a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring.
- a flat, thin mass of bread, especially unleavened bread.
- pancake; griddlecake.
- a shaped or molded mass of other food: a fish cake.
- a shaped or compressed mass: a cake of soap; a cake of ice.
- a compacted block of soybeans, cottonseeds, or linseeds from which the oil has been pressed, usually used as a feed or feed supplement for cattle.
- to form into a crust or compact mass.
- to become formed into a crust or compact mass.
- something easily done: She thought her first solo flight was a piece of cake.
- take the cake, Informal.
- to surpass all others, especially in some undesirable quality; be extraordinary or unusual: His arrogance takes the cake.
- to win first prize.
- a baked food, usually in loaf or layer form, typically made from a mixture of flour, sugar, and eggs
- a flat thin mass of bread, esp unleavened bread
- a shaped mass of dough or other food of similar consistency
- a mass, slab, or crust of a solidified or compressed substance, as of soap or ice
- to enjoy both of two desirable but incompatible alternatives
- to be sold very quickly or in large quantities
- something that is easily achieved or obtained
- to surpass all others, esp in stupidity, folly, etc
- the whole or total of something that is to be shared or divided
- to cover with a hard layer; encrust
- to form or be formed into a hardened mass
