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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
cake
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n.
an item of soft, sweet food made from a mixture of flour, shortening, eggs, sugar, and other ingredients, baked and often decorated.
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an item of savory food formed into a flat, round shape, and typically baked or fried:
crab cakes.
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a flattish, compact mass of something, esp. soap:
a cake of soap.
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v. [tr.] (usu. be caked)
(of a thick or sticky substance that hardens when dry) cover and become encrusted on (the surface of an object):
a pair of boots caked with mud.
∎ [intr.]
(of a thick or sticky substance) dry or harden into a solid mass:
the blood under his nose was beginning to cake.
PHRASES:
a piece of cake inf.
something easily achieved.
sell like hotcakes inf.
be sold quickly and in large quantities.
take the cake
surpass or exceed all others:
of all the hard-hearted women, she takes the cake.
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