- cake⇄cake, noun, verb, caked,caking.
- cake⇄expr. a piece of cake, (Informal.) something simple or easy to do or easy to obtain.
Ex. As Schirra had predicted it [maneuvering in space] was ""a piece of cake"" (Time). - cake⇄expr. have one's cake and eat it, to obtain the advantages of two things which contradict each other.
Ex. Disarmament in itself is an attempt to have one's cake and eat it, too, to enjoy the advantages of power politics while avoiding their perils - cake⇄expr. take the cake, (Slang.)
a. to win first prize.
Ex. Sheriff Moore takes the cake for the first wheat harvesting in Ransom County (Lisbon (North Dakota) Star).
b. to excel; surpass everyone.
Ex. In my book that phony woodcut - cake⇄noun 1. a baked mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, flavoring, and other things, usually including shortening and baking powder, soda, or yeast.
Ex. Mother baked a chocolate cake with white frosting for my birthday.
2. a flat, thin mass of dough - cake⇄v.i. to take the form of cake or a flat, compact, hardened mass.
Ex. Mud cakes as it dries.
(SYN) solidify. - cake⇄v.t. to form into a solid mass; harden.
Ex. Water caked the powder as hard as a stone.
(SYN) solidify.