cake

🇺🇸 /keɪk/ 🇬🇧 /keɪk/
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Tags TOP3000Oxford3000CEFR-A1
noun
A1

A sweet baked food made from flour, sugar, eggs, and butter, often decorated.

We had chocolate cake for dessert.

R

A flat, round food made by cooking a mixture.

She made potato cakes for breakfast.

intransitive verb
R

To cover something with a thick layer that hardens when dry.

His shoes were caked with mud after the hike.

R

To become hard and dry in a thick layer.

The paint caked on the brush when left out.

translation

n. A sweet baked food made from flour, sugar, eggs, and butter, often decorated.; A flat, round food made by cooking a mixture.
vi. To cover something with a thick layer that hardens when dry.; To become hard and dry in a thick layer.

Word Forms

Plural cakes
Perfect caked
Progressive caking
Past caked
3rd Present cakes