| 单词 | cake |
| 释义 | cake —caky, cakey, adj. /kayk/, n. , v. , caked, caking. n. 1. a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring. 2. a flat, thin mass of bread, esp. unleavened bread. 3. pancake; griddlecake. 4. a shaped or molded mass of other food: a fish cake. 5. a shaped or compressed mass: a cake of soap; a cake of ice. 6. Animal Husb. a compacted block of soybeans, cottonseeds, or linseeds from which the oil has been pressed, usually used as a feed or feed supplement for cattle. 7. a piece of cake, Informal. something easily done: She thought her first solo flight was a piece of cake. 8. take the cake, Informal. a. to surpass all others, esp. in some undesirable quality; be extraordinary or unusual: His arrogance takes the cake. b. to win first prize. v.t. 9. to form into a crust or compact mass. v.i. 10. to become formed into a crust or compact mass. [1200-50; ME < ON kaka; akin to ME kechel little cake, G Kuchen; see COOKIE] Syn. 10. harden, solidify, dry, congeal. |
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