Cake is a soft, sweet food that people often eat during celebrations. It is made by baking a mix of flour, sugar, and eggs in an oven.
I ate a chocolate cake yesterday.
She baked a cake for my birthday.
Cake can mean a solid, flat piece of a material, such as soap, ice, or mud. It is often shaped like a small block or layer.
There is a cake of soap in the bathroom.
She cut a small cake of ice from the pond.
Cake can mean a dry, hard crust that forms when mud, dirt, or other soft substances dry and stick to something.
The mud caked on his boots was hard.
Dirt caked the bottom of the shoes.
Cake can describe a thick layer of substance sticking firmly on a surface, such as ice or snow that does not easily come off.
Ice caked the branches after the storm.
Snow caked the car all night long.
As a verb, cake means to cover something with a thick layer of a sticky or hard substance, often with dirt, mud, or snow.
Mud caked his clothes after the game.
Snow caked the roof during the night.
In some places, cake is a traditional fishing tool. It is a net or basket used to catch fish by trapping them.
The fishermen used a cake to catch fish in the river.
He showed me a traditional cake for fish trapping.
Cake can be slang for money, meaning some or a lot of cash. People sometimes use it to talk about earnings or wealth.
He earned a lot of cake last month.
She wants to make some cake fast.
Cake can mean something that is very easy to do or win, like an easy success or task. This is often used in informal speech.
Winning that game was a cake for him.
This test will be cake for most students.
