cake (k?k)n.1. A sweet baked food made of flour, liquid, eggs, and other ingredients, such as raising agents and flavorings.2. A flat rounded mass of dough or batter, such as a pancake, that is baked or fried.3. A flat rounded mass of hashed or chopped food that is baked or fried; a patty.4. A shaped or molded piece, as of soap or ice.5. A layer or deposit of compacted matter: a cake of grime in the oven.v. caked, cak·ing, cakes v.tr. To cover or fill with a thick layer, as of compacted matter: a miner whose face was caked with soot.v.intr. To become formed into a compact or crusty mass: As temperatures dropped, the wet snow caked.[Middle English, from Old Norse kaka.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.cake (ke?k) n1. (Cookery) a baked food, usually in loaf or layer form, typically made from a mixture of flour, sugar, and eggs2. (Cookery) a flat thin mass of bread, esp unleavened bread3. (Cookery) a shaped mass of dough or other food of similar consistency: a fish cake. 4. a mass, slab, or crust of a solidified or compressed substance, as of soap or ice5. have one’s cake and eat it to enjoy both of two desirable but incompatible alternatives6. go like hot cakes sell like hot cakes informal to be sold very quickly or in large quantities7. a piece of cake informal something that is easily achieved or obtained8. take the cake informal chiefly US to surpass all others, esp in stupidity, folly, etc9. informal the whole or total of something that is to be shared or divided: the miners are demanding a larger slice of the cake; that is a fair method of sharing the cake. vb10. (tr) to cover with a hard layer; encrust: the hull was caked with salt. 11. to form or be formed into a hardened mass[C13: from Old Norse kaka; related to Danish kage, German Kuchen] ?cakey, ?caky adjCollins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014cake (ke?k) n., v. caked, cak?ing. n. 1. a sweet, baked, breadlike food, usu. containing flour, sugar, eggs, and flavoring and often shortening and baking powder or soda. 2. a flat, thin mass of bread, esp. unleavened bread. 3. a pancake; griddlecake. 4. a shaped or molded mass of other food: a fish cake. 5. a shaped or compressed mass: a cake of soap. v.t., v.i. 6. to form into a crust or compact mass. Idioms: 1. piece of cake, something that can be done easily. 2. take the cake, to win the hypothetical prize. [1200?50; Middle English