Definition of Cake

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Definition of Cake

Cake

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.

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.

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Cake Quotations

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin Franklin

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.
Mitch Hedberg

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope

Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids.
Bill Maher

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
Alfred Hitchcock

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
Alfred Hitchcock

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, "See if you can blow this out."
Jerry Seinfeld

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
George Harrison

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.
Paul Gauguin

Cake Translations

cake in Danish is kage
cake in Dutch is koek, cake
cake in Finnish is kakku
cake in German is Kuchen
cake in Italian is torta, focaccia
cake in Latin is crustum
cake in Norwegian is kake
cake in Portuguese is bolo
cake in Spanish is queque, tarta

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