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Meaning of 'cake' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Cake [ n.]
- A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
- A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
- A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
- A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake.
2 . Cake [ v. i.]
- To form into a cake, or mass.
- To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.
- To cackle as a goose.

Meaning of 'cake' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . cake [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
Example in sentence:
  • a bar of chocolate
2 . cake [ v]
Meaning (2):
- form a coat over
Example in sentence:
  • Dirt had coated her face

Nearby Words:

caked caking caking coal

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