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31cake — cake1 W3S2 [keık] n [Date: 1100 1200; : Old Norse; Origin: kaka] 1.) [U and C] a soft sweet food made by baking a mixture of flour, butter, sugar, and eggs ▪ cake and ice cream ▪ chocolate cake birthday/wedding/Christmas cake ▪ Do you want some… …
32cake — 1 /keIk/ noun 1 (C, U) a soft sweet food made by baking a mixture of flour, fat, sugar and eggs: a birthday cake | Would you like a slice of chocolate cake? compare biscuit 2 fish cake/rice cake etc fish, rice etc that has been formed into a flat …
33cake — n. 1) to bake; frost (esp. AE), ice a cake 2) a birthday; chocolate; coffee; honey; layer; Madeira (BE), pound (AE); marble; sponge; wedding; white cake 3) a piece, slice of cake 4) (misc.) a piece of cake( smt. very easy to do ); to take the… …
34cake — caky, cakey, adj. /kayk/, n., v., caked, caking. 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.… …
35cake */*/*/ — UK [keɪk] / US noun Word forms cake : singular cake plural cakes 1) [countable/uncountable] a sweet food made by baking a mixture that usually contains sugar, eggs, flour, and butter or oil a chocolate cake a birthday/wedding/Christmas cake a… …
36cake — /keɪk / (say kayk) noun 1. a sweet baked food in loaf or layer form, made with or without shortening, usually with flour, sugar, eggs, flavouring, and a liquid. 2. a flat, thin mass of bread, especially unleavened bread. 3. a shaped or moulded… …
37cake — noun 1》 an item of soft sweet food made from baking a mixture of flour, fat, eggs, sugar, etc. 2》 an item of savoury food formed into a flat round shape, and baked or fried. ↘a flattish compact mass of something: a cake of soap. 3》 the amount …
38Cake Walk — Der Cakewalk ist ein Gesellschaftstanz, der um 1850 entstand und zunächst Chalk Line Walk (englisch für „Kreideliniengang“) genannt wurde. Von 1895 bis 1905 wurde der Tanz dann auf der Grundlage von Ragtime Musik als Cakewalk zum bekannten… …
39cake — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. harden; consolidate, cohere; thicken, congeal, condense. See coherence. n. mass, brick, block, floe; torte. See density, food. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A flattish, compact mass] Syn. cube, bar, block …
40cake — [[t]keɪk[/t]] n. v. caked, cak•ing 1) coo a sweet, baked, breadlike food, usu. containing flour, sugar, eggs, and flavoring and often shortening and baking powder or soda 2) coo a flat, thin mass of bread, esp. unleavened bread 3) coo a pancake;… …
