cake: Meaning and Definition of

cake

Pronunciation: (kāk), [key]
— n., v., caked, cak•ing.
—n.
  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, esp. 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.
  7. something easily done: She thought her first solo flight was a piece of cake.
  8. His arrogance takes the cake.
    1. to surpass all others, esp. in some undesirable quality; be extraordinary or unusual:His arrogance takes the cake.
    2. to win first prize.
—v.t.
  1. to form into a crust or compact mass.
—v.i.
  1. to become formed into a crust or compact mass.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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