Cake (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring.
  2. a flat, thin mass of bread, especially unleavened bread.
  3. pancake; griddlecake.
  4. a shaped or molded mass of other food: a fish cake.
  5. a shaped or compressed mass: a cake of soap; a cake of ice.
  6. 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.
verb (used with object), caked, cak·ing.
  1. to form into a crust or compact mass.
verb (used without object), caked, cak·ing.
  1. to become formed into a crust or compact mass.
Idioms
  1. something easily done: She thought her first solo flight was a piece of cake.
  2. 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.
noun
  1. a baked food, usually in loaf or layer form, typically made from a mixture of flour, sugar, and eggs
  2. a flat thin mass of bread, esp unleavened bread
  3. a shaped mass of dough or other food of similar consistency
  4. a mass, slab, or crust of a solidified or compressed substance, as of soap or ice
  5. to enjoy both of two desirable but incompatible alternatives
  6. to be sold very quickly or in large quantities
  7. something that is easily achieved or obtained
  8. to surpass all others, esp in stupidity, folly, etc
  9. the whole or total of something that is to be shared or divided
verb
  1. to cover with a hard layer; encrust
  2. to form or be formed into a hardened mass
Cake (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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