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- pronunciation:
- keIk
- parts of speech:
- noun, verb
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
A cake is a soft, sweet food that is baked in an oven. A cake is made with flour, eggs, and sugar.
My dad and I made a cake for my mom's birthday.
- similar words:
- bun, cupcake, pastry, pie
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| definition 2: |
A cake is also a kind of flat, round food that is fried in a pan or baked in an oven.
When we stay at our grandma's house, she always makes pancakes for us in the morning.During the Hanukkah holiday, my family eats potato cakes that are called "latkes."- similar words:
- donut, pancake
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| definition 3: |
When a liquid substance is made to dry in the form of a certain shape, the hard substance that it becomes is called a cake.
A bar of soap is sometimes called a cake of soap.- similar words:
- bar
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| related words: |
block, mass |
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| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
cakes, caking, caked |
| definition: |
When something cakes, it dries and gets hard. Mud cakes when it becomes dry.
I forgot to wash my shoes after I played outside in the rain, and the mud caked on them.- similar words:
- form, harden, mold, pat, shape
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| related words: |
compress |
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