cake

Pronunciation

• enPR: kāk
• IPA ^(key): /keɪk/
• SAMPA: /keIk/

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Noun

Singular cake

Plural cakes

1. (countable & uncountable) A cake is a sweet baked food.

   Natasha's mum baked her a cake for her birthday.

   Would you like some cake for dessert?

2. (countable & uncountable) A cake is a food that is made into a flat, usually round, shape.

   At that time of year, we make small Japanese rice cakes called mochi.

3. (countable) A cake of soap or ice, is a hard piece of it.

   He took a cake of soap and started to wash.

4. If something is a piece of cake, it's very easy.

   Yesterday's test was a piece of cake. I got twenty out of twenty.

• 
  A cake
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  Rice cakes
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  A cake of soap

Verb

Plain form cake

Third-person singular cakes

Past tense caked

Past participle caked

Present participle caking

1. (transitive) If something is caked, then it is coated with a layer of some material.

   His shoes are caked with mud.