Cake

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Cake, n. [OE. cake, kaak; akin to Dan. kage, Sw. & Icel. kaka, D. koek, G.kuchen, OHG. chuocho.].

•  A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.  [1913 Webster]
•  A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.  [1913 Webster]
•  A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood."  [1913 Webster]

Cake urchin (Zoöl), any species of flat sea urchins belonging to the Clypeastroidea. -- Oil cake the refuse of flax seed, cotton seed, or other vegetable substance from which oil has been expressed, compacted into a solid mass, and used as food for cattle, for manure, or for other purposes. -- To have one's cake dough, to fail or be disappointed in what one has undertaken or expected. Shak.

Cake, v. i. 

 To form into a cake, or mass.  [1913 Webster]

Cake, v. i. 

 To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.  [1913 Webster]
"Clotted blood that caked within."  [1913 Webster]

Cake, v. i. 

 To cackle as a goose.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Cake, n. & v.
--n.
1 a a mixture of flour, butter, eggs, sugar, etc., baked in the oven. b a quantity of this baked in a flat round or ornamental shape and often iced and decorated.
2 a other food in a flat round shape (fish cake). b = cattle-cake.
3 a flattish compact mass (a cake of soap).
4 Sc. & N.Engl. thin oaten bread.
--v.
1 tr. & intr. form into a compact mass.
2 tr. (usu. foll. by with) cover (with a hard or sticky mass) (boots caked with mud).

Idiom

cakes and ale merrymaking. have one's cake and eat it colloq. enjoy both of two mutually exclusive alternatives. like hot cakes rapidly or successfully. a piece of cake colloq. something easily achieved. a slice of the cake participation in benefits.

Etymology

ME f. ON kaka

THESAURUS

Cake

Boston cream pie, angel cake, angel food cake, baked Alaska, bar, block, body, bun, candy, cheesecake, chocolate cake, chunk, clabber, clot, clump, cluster, coagulate, coffee cake, concrete, concretion, condense, congeal, conglomerate, conglomeration, consolidate, crystallize, cube, cupcake, curd, curdle, dry, encrust, fruitcake, gateau, gel, gelatinate, gelatinize, genoise, gingerbread, granulate, harden, honey cake, incrassate, inspissate, jell, jellify, jelly, jelly roll, jumble, knot, layer cake, loaf, lopper, lump, marble cake, mass, node, pastry, piece, pound cake, savarin, set, shortcake, slab, solid, solid body, solidify, spice cake, sponge cake, take a set, tea cake, thick, thicken, white cake, yellow cake

ROGET THESAURUS

Cake

Coherence

VB cohere, adhere, stick, cling, cleave, hold, take hold of, hold fast, close with, clasp, hug, grow together, hang together, twine round, stick like a leech, stick like wax, stick close, cling like ivy, cling like a bur, adhere like a remora, adhere like Dejanira's shirt, glue, agglutinate, conglutinate, cement, lute, paste, gum, solder, weld, cake, consolidate, agglomerate.

Density

N density, solidity, solidness, impenetrability, impermeability, incompressibility, imporosity, cohesion, constipation, consistence, spissitude, specific gravity, hydrometer, areometer, condensation, caseation, solidation, solidification, consolidation, concretion, coagulation, petrification, crystallization, precipitation, deposit, precipitate, inspissation, gelation, thickening, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, insolubility, indissolvableness, solid body, mass, block, knot, lump, concretion, concrete, conglomerate, cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum, bone, gristle, cartilage, casein, crassamentum, legumin, superdense matter, condensed states of matter, dwarf star, neutron star, dense, solid, solidified, caseous, pukka, coherent, cohesive, compact, close, serried, thickset, substantial, massive, lumpish, impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous, incompressible, constipated, concrete, knotted, knotty, gnarled, crystalline, crystallizable, thick, grumous, stuffy, undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed, indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.

VB be dense, become solid, render solid, solidify, solidate, concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate, curd, curdle, lopper, fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere, crystallize, petrify, condense, thicken, gel, inspissate, incrassate, compress, squeeze, ram down, constipate.

Sweetness

N sweetness, dulcitude, sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna, confection, confectionary, sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture, jam, julep, sugar-candy, sugar-plum, licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat, apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose, maple sirup, maple syrup, maple sugar, mithai, sorghum, taffy, nectar, hydromel, mead, meade, metheglin, honeysuckle, liqueur, sweet wine, aperitif, sugar cane, sugar beets, desert, pastry, pie, cake, candy, ice cream, tart, puff, pudding (food), dulcification, dulcoration, sweetener, corn syrup, cane sugar, refined sugar, beet sugar, dextrose, artificial sweetener, saccharin, cyclamate, aspartame, Sweet'N Low, sweet, saccharine, sacchariferous, dulcet, candied, honied, luscious, lush, nectarious, melliferous, sweetened, sweet as a nut, sweet as sugar, sweet as honey, sickly sweet, eau sucr_ee, sweets to the sweet.