Pancake

Definition: Pancake

Pancake

Noun

1. A flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle.

Date "pancake" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Pancake

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	To dream of eating pancakes, denotes that you will have excellent success in all enterprises undertaken at this time. To cook them, denotes that you will be economical and thrifty in your home. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Geography	Welded scoriae which are still plastic when they fall to the ground and flatten out and stick together. . . . Individual scoriae of this type resemble pancakes. . . and are termed. . . --. Source: European Union. (references)
Literature	Pancake (2 syl.) is a pudding or "cake" made in a frying-pan. It was originally to be eaten after dinner, to stay the stomachs of those who went to be shriven. The Shrove-bell was called the Pancake Bell, and the day of shriving "Pancake Tuesday." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Mining	A. See:ribbon b. Any of concrete discs that are stacked to form concrete columns for stope support. They are cast at the surface and are usually 30 in (76.2 cm) diameter by 4 in (10.2 cm) thick with reinforcement from wire rop. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Pancake

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A pancake is a flat batter cake, fried in butter or oil on a griddle or pan. It can be eaten both hot and cold. Its origins extend to antiquity, and it has been featured in cookbooks since at least 1439.

Pancakes are cooked one side at a time, being flipped by the cook halfway through. The process of tossing or flipping them is, to many people, part of the essence of the pancake, and one of the skills that separates the experienced cook from the beginner.

There are sweet varieties, for example cooked with raisins inside, and savoury ones, such as with cheese or bacon. The latter may also be sweetened, after cooking, by adding syrup or powdered sugar.

In the United States, the pancake is usually a breakfast food, but it is so popular that a franchised restaurant called International House of Pancakes, commonly called IHOP, has more than 1,000 restaurants. In Great Britain, pancakes are celebrated on 'Pancake Day' (also known as Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras). According to tradition, this was in order to use up the last of the fat before the Lent season.

In the Netherlands pancakes are eaten as dinner. Pancake restaurants are popular family restaurants and serve many varieties of sweet, savoury, and stuffed pancakes.

A common recipe for pancake batter:

4 1/2 cups flour

1/4 cup sugar

1 tsp. salt

1 pkg. dry yeast

4 cups milk

1/2 cup butter

6 eggs

Combine and beat until smooth. Lightly grease griddle and pour 1/4 cup batter onto hot surface for each pancake. Turn when edges look cooked and bubbles begin to break on surface.

For extra light pancakes, mix some beer in with the batter.

It is also possible to follow a simpler recipe, without exact measurements. First, break an egg into a bowl. Mix in plain white flour until a smooth paste is formed and then dilute with milk until the consistency is suitable for pouring. Heat a small amount of some kind of cooking fat or cooking oil in a small frying pan and pour in enough mixture to thinly cover the base of the pan (leaving a little room round the edge). When the mixture appears to be reasonably cooked on the base (the top side will change in appearance), either turn or flip the pancake to cook the reverse.

Synonyms: Pancake

Synonyms: battercake (n), flannelcake (n), flapcake (n), flapjack (n), griddlecake (n), hot cake (n), hotcake (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Pancake

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Flatness	Adjective: flat, plane, even, flush, scutiform, discoid; level; (horizontal); flat as a pancake, flat as a fluke, flat as a flounder, flat as a board, flat as my hand.
Food	Alligator pear, apple; apple slump; artichoke; ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey; chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Pancake

English words defined with "pancake": beach pancake, blini, blintz, blintze, bliny, buckwheat cake, buttermilk pancake ♦ charred pancake cup, crape, crepe ♦ egg roll ♦ French pancake, Froise ♦ german pancake ♦ pancake batter, pancake day, pancake turner, pancake turtle, potato pancake ♦ Scotch pancake, Shrove Tuesday, spring roll ♦ tortilla ♦ waffle. (references)

Specialty definitions using "pancake": CAKE TESTER. (references)

Etymologies containing "pancake": Flawn. (references)

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Modern Usage: Pancake

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	It's like a pancake, except the natives didn't have any flour so they used sawdust. (Sabrina the Animated Series; writing credit: Josh Stolberg)
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Commercial Usage: Pancake

Domain	Title
References	Pancake House Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	A Room Forever: The Life, Work, and Letters of Breece D'J Pancake (reference) Killer Pancake (reference) Pancake Dreams (reference) Si Le Das UN Panqueque a Una Cerdita/If You Give a Pig a Pancake (reference) The Big Pancake (Well Loved Tales Level 1) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Linkin Park - Frat Party at the Pancake Festival (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Flat as a Pancake (reference) Let's Have a Pancake [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) Pancake Day (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods	Perfect Pancake (reference) Porter-Cable CPF23400P 3 HP, 4-Gallon Pancake Compressor (reference) Thomas Compressors T-30HP 1-1/4 HP 4.5 Gallon Pancake Tank Compressor (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
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Image Slideshow: Pancake

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Photo Album: Pancake

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	"The Wake of the Nimrod through Pancake Ice." In: "The Heart of the Antarctic", Volume I, by E. H. Shackleton, 1909. P. 78. Library Call Number G149 S52.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		"Seals basking on newly formed pancake ice off Cape Evans." In: "Scott's Last Expedition ....", 1913. Dodd, Mead, and Company. New York. Volume I. Page 106.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	"Campbell and Priestley afloat on pancake ice." In: "Scott's Last Expedition ....", 1913. Dodd, Mead, and Company. New York. Volume II. Page 66.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		A small boat in the pancake ice. . BELGICA en 1897-1898-1899 .... Oceanographie Les Glaces Glace de Mer et Banquises" par Henryk Arctowski. 1908. P. 17.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	Small pancake ice.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Pancake ice adrift on the Ross Sea.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	The NATHANIEL B. PALMER moving through pancake ice.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Students at John Adams Elementary School in Alexandria, Va. reaches for a pancake at the breakfast meal.Credit: USDA.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Pancake

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Honduras	U.S. exports to Honduras of snack foods, breakfast cereals & pancake mix, red meats, poultry meat, dairy products, eggs and products, fresh fruit, processed fruits & vegetables, wine & beer, pet foods (dog & cat), and the 'other' category of consumer-oriented products all established new highs in 1999. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Pancake

"Pancake" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.43% of the time. "Pancake" is used about 92 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	80.43%	74	38,813
Noun (proper)	11.96%	11	106,044
Lexical Verb (base form)	6.52%	6	143,867
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	1.09%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	92	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Pancake

The following table summarizes the usage of "pancake" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Pancake	Last name	300	24,343
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Pancake

Country	Name
Philippines	Pancake House Inc
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Pancake

Expressions using "pancake": as flat as a pancake ♦ beach pancake ♦ buttermilk pancake ♦ charred pancake cup ♦ cheese pancake ♦ flat as a pancake ♦ french pancake ♦ german pancake ♦ pancake batter ♦ pancake day ♦ pancake landing ♦ pancake to an aircraft ♦ pancake turner ♦ pancake turtle ♦ pancake with diced pork ♦ potato pancake ♦ Scotch pancake. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "pancake": pancake-shaped.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pancake

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
pancake recipe	727
pancake	550
international house of pancake	279
potato pancake	134
pancake smoke	86
pancake mix	57
house of pancake	53
make pancake	53
swedish pancake	43
german pancake	41
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Modern Translations: Pancake

Language		Translations for "pancake"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		petull (cake, crepe, flapjack, griddle cake, slapjack), zbritje me parashutë. (various references)

Arabic		‏فطيرة (cobbler, fritter, pasty, patty, pie, pizza), ‏هبوط عمودي للطائرة, ‏تهبط هبوطا عموديا, ‏تهبط بالمظلة. (various references)

Bulgarian		твърда пудра, кацам вертикално, палачинка (crepe, flapjack, slapjack). (various references)

Chinese		薄烤餅 , 薄煎饼. (various references)

Czech		palaèinka (omelet, omelette), lívanec (crumpet, griddle cake, griddlecake, slap jack, slapjack, waffle). (various references)

Dutch		pannekoek. (various references)

Esperanto		flano. (various references)

Farsi		نان ساجی (Taco). (various references)

Finnish		pannukakku (batter pudding). (various references)

French		crêpe. (various references)

German		pfannkuchen (griddlecake, pancakes, potpie), eierkuchen (omelet). (various references)

Greek		τηγανίτα (crumpet, fritter, griddlecake, muffin, slap jack, waffle). (various references)

Hebrew		לביב�" (blintze, fritter, latke), ל� חות � חית�" מאו� כת, חמיט�" (waffle), חבית�" (omelette). (various references)

Hungarian		palacsinta (crepe, flapjack, griddlecake, hotcake, slapjack). (various references)

Italian		frittella (crumpet, fritter, fritters). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		パンの木 (breadfruit, bursting, Pan-Americanism, panchromatic, pansy, punctual, punctuation, puncture, punk, punk rock), 平落 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		パンケーキ , ひらおち. (various references)

Korean		팬케이크. (various references)

Manx		pannag lurrag. (various references)

Norwegian		pannekake. (various references)

Pig Latin		ancakepay.(various references)

Portuguese		panqueca, panamericano, filhó. (various references)

Romanian		clãtitã (flap-jack, fritter, griddle cake), ateriza brusc. (various references)

Russian		блин (flapjack, hot cake, slapjack). (various references)

Scottish		breacag (a pancake, scone, thin cake). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		palačinka (flapjack, griddle cake, griddlecake, slapjack). (various references)

Spanish		panqueque, crepe (crepe). (various references)

Swedish		pannkaka (flapjack, griddle cake, slapjack). (various references)

Turkish		yassı (flat, plane, platy-, tabloid, tabular), krep (crape, crepe, slapjack), gövde üzerine inmek. (various references)

Turkmen		byzmyk (crepe). (various references)

Ukranian		оладка (cake, fritter, muffin), млинець (cake), посадка з парашутуваням, парашутувати (parachute). (various references)

Welsh		ffroisen, crempog. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Pancake

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pancake": pancaked, pancakes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Pancake" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Banacek, packea, panace, Panacide, panacne, pancaked, Pancole, Pancrace, Paschke, Pencareg, Pencavel, Pensak, Penycae, sancak, zanaki. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Pancake"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "pancake" (pronounced pa"nkā'k)
3	-k ā' k	backache, cheesecake, cupcake, fruitcake, hotcake, shortcake.
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Anagrams: Pancake

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-k-n-p"
	-1 letter: canape.
	-2 letters: apace, apeak, apnea, paean, pecan, pekan.
	-3 letters: acne, cake, cane, cape, kana, kane, kapa, knap, nape, neap, neck, paca, pace, pack, pane, peak, pean, peck.
	-4 letters: ace, ana, ane, ape, can, cap, cep, kae, kea, ken, kep, nae, nap, pac, pan, pea, pec, pen.
	-5 letters: aa, ae, an, en, ka, na, ne, pa, pe.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-k-n-p"
	+1 letter: pancaked, pancakes.
	+3 letters: jackanapes, knapsacked, pacemaking.
	+4 letters: meatpacking, pacemakings, peacemaking, repackaging.
	+5 letters: backpedaling, jackanapeses, kleptomaniac, meatpackings, peacemakings, prepackaging, spacewalking.
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