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Cake

Definition: Cake

Cake

Noun

1. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate".

2. Small flat mass of chopped food.

3. Made from or based on a mixture of flour and sugar and eggs.

Verb

1. Form a coat over; "Dirt had coated her face".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cake" was first used: sometime around 1200. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Cake

DomainDefinition

Industry

Yarn put up in forms without internal support. Source: European Union. (references)

Bible

Cake Cakes made of wheat or barley were offered in the temple. They were salted, but unleavened (Ex. 29:2; Lev. 2:4). In idolatrous worship thin cakes or wafers were offered "to the queen of heaven" (Jer. 7:18; 44:19). Pancakes are described in 2 Sam. 13:8, 9. Cakes mingled with oil and baked in the oven are mentioned in Lev. 2:4, and "wafers unleavened anointed with oil," in Ex. 29:2; Lev. 8:26; 1 Chr. 23:29. "Cracknels," a kind of crisp cakes, were among the things Jeroboam directed his wife to take with her when she went to consult Ahijah the prophet at Shiloh (1 Kings 14:3). Such hard cakes were carried by the Gibeonites when they came to Joshua (9:5, 12). They described their bread as "mouldy;" but the Hebrew word _nikuddim_, here used, ought rather to be rendered "hard as biscuit." It is rendered "cracknels" in 1 Kings 14:3. The ordinary bread, when kept for a few days, became dry and excessively hard. The Gibeonites pointed to this hardness of their bread as an evidence that they had come a long journey. We read also of honey-cakes (Ex. 16:31), "cakes of figs" (1 Sam. 25:18), "cake" as denoting a whole piece of bread (1 Kings 17:12), and "a [round] cake of barley bread" (Judg. 7:13). In Lev. 2 is a list of the different kinds of bread and cakes which were fit for offerings. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.

Food & Agriculture

Name adopted for many kinds of small fancy cakes and biscuits. There are two kinds of -- the fancy cookies and the iced genoese cakes dipped into fondant icing. Source: European Union. (references)

Geography

Solidified drilling sludge adhering to the walls of a borehole, or the solid residue left on a filter after filtration. Source: European Union. (references)

Literature

Cake A fool, a poor thing. (Cf. HALF-BAKED.)
Cake To take the cake. To carry off the prize. The reference is to the prize-cake to the person who succeeded best in a given competition. In Notes and Queries (Feb. 27th, 1892, p. 176) a correspondent of New York tells us of a "cake walk" by the Southern negroes. It consists of walking round the prize cake in pairs, and umpires decide which pair walk the most gracefully. In ancient Greece a cake was the award of the toper who held out the longest.
In Ireland the best dancer in a dancing competition was rewarded, at one time, by a cake.
"A churn-dish stuck into the earth supported on its flat end a cake, which was to become the prize of the best dancer. ... At length the competitors yielded their claims to a young man ... who, taking the cake, placed it gallantly in the lap of a pretty girl to whom ... he was about to be married."- Bartlett and Coyne: Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland, vol. ii. p. 64.
You cannot eat your cake and have it too. You cannot spend your money and yet keep it. You cannot serve God and Mammon.
Your cake [or my cake] is dough. All my swans are turned to geese. Occisa est res tua [or mea]. Mon affaire est manquée; my project has failed. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Metallurgy

At the Copper Clift electrolytic copper refinery, facilities were installed for semi-continuous casting of large copper billets and --, replacing the less efficient static mould casting system. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. The solid residue left in a filter press or on a vacuum filter after the solution has been drawn off. b. Solidified drill sludge c. That portion of a drilling mud adhering to the walls of a borehole. Syn:wall cake d. See:cake of gold; mud cake. e. To form in a mass such as when ore sinters together in roasting, orcoal cakes together in coking. (references)

Occupations

Synthetic thread piled into ring shape. (references)

Slang

Adjective. Source: Shortend version of Piece of cake. Definition: Something that is easy to do. Context: You use this word when refering to a job or a task that is going to be easy to do. Social Source: Students in the Lakeridge Alternative Program. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

Slang in 1811

CAKE, or CAKEY. A foolish fellow. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Cake

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A cake is a form of baked food, usually sweet. Cakes normally combine some kind of flour, a sweetening agent (commonly sugar), a binding agent (generally egg, though gluten or starch are often used by vegetarians and vegans), shortening (usually butter or margarine), a liquid (milk, water or fruit juice), flavours and some form of raising agent (such as baking powder).

Cake is often the dessert of choice for meals at ceremonial occasions, particularly weddings or birthday parties. The bride and groom are the first to eat their wedding cake, often serving each other a piece in their fingers. For birthdays, a frosted cake, often with inscriptions in frosting and figural decorations, is covered with candles, which are blown out after the celebrant makes a wish.

Techniques

Cakes can be made using several different basic techniques:

Common varieties

Commonly made varieties of cake include:

See also

Many recipes can be found in the Wikipedia Cookbook

Other senses of the word cake

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Cake (band)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Cake is a Sacramento, California band, formed in 1990, who have had several hits throughout the 1990s and 2000s from their four recorded albums: Motorcade of Generosity (1994), Fashion Nugget (1996), Prolonging the Magic (1998) and Comfort Eagle (2001).

Their music, fitting into the category of alternative rock, features droll lyrics, laconically-voiced (often in a near-rapping style) by lead vocalist/guitarist John McCrea; catchy distorted guitar riffs (courtesy, until 1998, of guitarist Greg Brown and, until 1997, bass player Victor Damiani); and, notably, a solo trumpet, played by Vince DiFiore.

Damiani left the band in 1997, replaced by Gabe Nelson; Greg Brown left in 1998, replaced by Xan McCurdy.

Their biggest hits include "The Distance", an alternative retake of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive", "Sheep Go to Heavan", and "Short Skirt/Long Jacket".

Cake's fifth album is due for release Spring 2004.

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Synonyms: Cake

Synonyms: bar (n), patty (n), coat (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Cake

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Coherence

Glue; agglutinate, conglutinate; cement, lute, paste, gum; solder, weld; cake, consolidate; (solidify); agglomerate. Adjective: cohesive, adhesive, adhering, cohering; Verb: tenacious, tough; sticky.

Density

Verb: be dense. Adjective: become solid, render solid. Adjective: solidify, solidate; concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate; curd, curdle; lopper; fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere, crystallize; petrify. (harden).

Solid body, mass, block, knot, lump; concretion, concrete, conglomerate; cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum; bone, gristle, cartilage; casein, crassamentum; legumin.

Superiority

Verb: be superior; Adjective: exceed, excel, transcend; outdo, outbalance, outweigh, outrank, outrival, out-Herod; pass, surpass, get ahead of; over-top, override, overpass, overbalance, overweigh, overmatch; top, o'ertop, cap, beat, cut out; beat hollow; outstrip; eclipse, throw into the shade, take the shine out of, outshine, put one's nose out of joint; have the upper hand, have the whip hand of, have the advantage; turn the scale, kick the beam; play first fiddle; (importance); preponderate, predominate, prevail; precede, take precedence, come first; come to a head, culminate; beat; all others, bear the palm; break the record; take the cake.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Cake

English words defined with "cake": angel cake, angel food cake, applesauce cakebirthday cakecake mix, Cheese cake, chiffon cake, chocolate cake, coconut cake, coffee cake, Corn cake, crumb cakedevil's food cakeHaver cake, honey cake, hot cakeicebox cake, ice-cream cakelayer cake, Linseed cakeMadeira cakeOil cakepound cake, prune cakerock cakespice cake, sponge caketake the cakewedding cake, white cakeyeast cake. (references)
Specialty definitions using "cake": airveyorBAKERY WORKER, CONVEYOR LINE, banket, Bean-king, bench hand, machine, BLACK-ASH-BURNER OPERATOR, BODY-MAKE-UP ARTIST, Bride Cake, Bridegroom's Men, bright cake, BRIQUETTE OPERATOR, Burt filterCake ... Dough, cake copper, CAKE DECORATOR, CAKE FORMER, CAKE PULLER, CAKE STRIPPER, CAKE TESTER, cake thickness, CAKE-PRESS OPERATOR, CAKE-PRESS-OPERATOR HELPER, Cakes, CAKEY, cardoxide, CATALYST-RECOVERY OPERATOR, CENTRIFUGAL-DRIER OPERATOR, centrifugal-extractor operator, centrifuge operator, clothes wringer, Collyridians, cone chocolate dipper, cone racker, contact logging, convenience foods, cottonseed-meat presser, CracknellsDariolet, Dariolette, dispensary attendant, DISSOLVER OPERATOR, dough sheeter, DRIER OPERATOR IV, drying-machine tender, dust consolidationEXTRACTOR OPERATORfilter aid, FILTER OPERATOR, FILTER WASHER AND PRESSER, filter-cake texture, filter-pulp washer, filtration rate, FIRER HELPER, former puller, FRAME STRIPPER, free-burning coal, FURNACE HELPERGroaning CakeHokyintermittent filtersKelly filterLDB, LEAD RECOVERER, CONTINUOUS-NAPHTHA-TREATING PLANT, LoavesMarchington, mock cake, mud wall cakeNOVELTY WORKER, Nutra-LoafOILSEED-MEAT PRESSER, Oliver filter, Owl was a Baker's Daughterpan shaker, pan shoveler, pan shover, pastry decorator, POLISHER AND BUFFER IIrapid-extractor operator, Ridgeway fiter, ring-shape mold, rotobelt filtersavarin mold, SHEETER OPERATOR, SINTER-MACHINE OPERATOR, slitter operator, sludge-filter operator, sluff, SMOKING-TOBACCO-CUTTER OPERATOR, SNAP, Soul Cakes, spray drier, stone dust, SUPERVISOR, BLAST-FURNACE-AUXILIARIES, SUPERVISOR, STEFFEN HOUSE, SUPPLY CLERK, SWEET HEART, SWEET-GOODS-MACHINE OPERATORTHREAD INSPECTOR, tobacco cuttervacuum-filter operatorWolf nickel-cadmium battery. (references)
Etymologies containing "cake": Torta. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Cake" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Dutch (cake).

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Modern Usage: Cake

DomainUsage

Screenplays

This cake has a hole in it. (My Big Fat Greek Wedding; writing credit: Nia Vardalos)

The fly was funny, but the booger was the icing on the cake! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Why do you keep coming down here with a cake and saying surprise (The Young Ones; writing credit: Ben Elton; Rik Mayall)

You will be awarded a cake! (Short Circuit; writing credit: Brent Maddock; S.S. Wilson)

That will be a piece of cake! (Dragon Ball Z; writing credit: Chris Forbis; Eric Johnson)

Lyrics

Let them know we bought that cake, straight out the gate (Lady Marmalade; performing artist: Christina Aguilera)

Try to have the cake and eat it, too. (Son Of A Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You); performing artist: Janet Jackson)

Nibblin' on sponge cake (Margaritaville; performing artist: JIMMY BUFFET)

We do hey you And might do some cake too (So Fresh, So Clean; performing artist: Outkast)

But I hear tell someone's been diggin round in my cake (I Ain't Gonna Stand for It; performing artist: Stevie Wonder)

Clever

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. (references; author: Bob Hope)

Twelve-ounce pound cake (references; author: unknown)

453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake. (references; author: unknown)

Compromise: The art of dividing a cake so that everybody believes he or she got the biggest piece. (references; author: unknown)

Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but he she can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Cake (2000)

Devil's Feud Cake (1963)

A Piece of Cake (1946)

The Cake Eater (1924)

Bud Takes the Cake (1920)

Song Titles

Cake For Breakfast (performing artist: Greg Lee)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Cake

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2001 Report on Cake Coverings for Home Baking: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

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Books

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Cake

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Photo Album: Cake

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Clypeaster reticulatus, cake urchin test, oral view. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Army National Guard Command Sgt. Maj. John Leonard Jr. and Air National Guard Tech. Sgt. Christina Blithe slice the birthday cake with a sword on behalf of all enlisted Guardsmen during the National Guard's 364th birthday celebration in Arlington, Va., on.

Caption: Henry Ford Cutting His Birthday Cake on the Grounds of Glenmont During the 1930 Edison Scholarship Contest; West Orange, NJ; August, 1930; {13.200/57} (jpg).

Caption: Edison at Glenmont, Cutting a Birthday Cake on His 80th Birthday, Mina Edison at His Side; West Orange, NJ; February 11, 1927; {14.110/10} (jpg).

[Woman helping young girl in a paper hat slice a birthday cake at a party while other children look on] Esther Bubley. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Lieutenant Commander Maurice N. Wickendoll receives congratulations from Vice Admiral Felix B. Stump and Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air John F. Floberg, after making Coral Sea's 20,000th landing, 31 August 1950. Stewardsmen in the foreground are holding a cake baked and decorated in honor of the occasion. Credit: NAVY.

Captain Valentine H. Schaeffer, USN, the carrier's Commanding Officer, cuts the cake at a reception following her commissioning ceremonies, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 17 November 1943. Looking on are Philippine Commonwealth Vice President Sergio Osmeña and Miss Rosie Osmeña. Credit: NAVY.

Billy devoted himself exclusively to the spice cake. Credit: Library of Congress.

Charlie Hughes: no more pie, thank you, but if you could help me to a little of the cake, I should like it. Credit: Library of Congress.

Members of the U.S. delegation to the San Francisco Conference icing a United Nations Charter cake. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Cake
 

"Cake" by Markus .
Commentary: "It was very tasty :)."
"Wedding Cake" by David Sinofksy
Commentary: "My Sister's Wedding Cake from Her Wedding."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Cake

AuthorQuotation

Author Unknown

Let them eat cake.

George Herbert

Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?

John Heywood

Would yee both eat your cake, and have your cake?

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Cake

TitleAuthorQuote

Alice in Wonderland

Carroll, Lewis

So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The smaller was looking at the cake, the larger was looking at the bourgeois who was going away

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

He picked a splinter of wood from the ground and scraped the cake of grease from the bearing and the bearing bolts

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

I remember a thrush had the confidence to snatch out of my hand with his bill a piece of cake that Glumdalclitch had just given me for my breakfast

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Cake

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Marshall Islands

Copra cake and oil are by far the nation's largest exports. (references)

Hong Kong

A growing number of herbal tea shops, cake shops and apparel retailers have adopted franchising as a preferred method of market expansion, especially to China and South East Asia. (references)

Venezuela

Venezuela imported 312,000 MT of soybean meal and cake from the United States for marketing year 1999/00, while current imports (before the end of marketing year 1900/01) account for 78,000 MT of soybean meal and cake. (references)

Trade

Burma

The most current regulations, issued in November 1999 and February 2000, prohibit the import of commodities such as seasoning powder, soft drinks, assorted biscuits, chewing gum, cake, wafers, chocolate, canned foods noodles, liquor, beer, cigarette and fruits. (references)

Bangladesh

Quality control licenses issued by the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institute are required to export the following items: cane molasses, shrimp and prawns (except frozen de-veined or cooked), oil cake, wet batteries and dry battery cells, electric fans and other select electric appliances, biscuits, and PVC electric cables. (references)

Burma

On November 26, 1999, the Ministry of Commerce issued Order No. 10/99 that lists the following as restricted export items: rice and rice products, white sugar, red sugar and brown sugar, groundnut and groundnut oil, sesame and sesame oil, mustard and mustard oil, sunflower and sunflower oil, groundnut cake, sesame cake, mustard cake, sunflower cake, cotton and cotton products, petroleum, gems and jewelry, gold, jade, pearls, diamonds, lead, tin, tungsten (wolfram), tin-scheelite, silver, bronze, zinc, coal, other metals, ivory, buffaloes, cows, elephants, horses and rare animals, leather, shrimp, bran, arms, ammunitions, antiques and rubber. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Cake

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Michael J. Fox

I pre-ordered a seven-layer coconut-creme cake and had figurines custom made to the top that look exactly like you and Claudia.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Cake

"Cake" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.71% of the time. "Cake" is used about 2,801 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.71%2,7933,311
Lexical Verb (base form)0.11%3202,518
Noun (proper)0.11%3202,518
Lexical Verb (infinitive)0.07%2245,945
                    Total100.00%2,801N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Cake

The following table summarizes the usage of "cake" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
CakeLast name13058,154
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Cake

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "cake".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
OgN/ABiblical

A cake

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expressions: Cake

Expressions using "cake": a piece of cake Ague cake angel cake angel food cake apple cake applesauce cake as a piece of cake ash cake bake a cake birthday cake buckwheat cake cake a la mode cake bread cake dish cake ice cake mix cake mixture cake of soap cake pan cake shop cake slice Cake urchin cattle cake Cheese cake chiffon cake chocolate cake christmas cake coconut cake codfish cake coffee cake corn cake cotton cake cottonseed cake cream cake crumb cake currant cake devil's food cake dried cake Dumb cake feeding cake filter cake fish cake fried cake fruit cake Genoa cake griddle cake Haver cake honey cake hot cake ice cake icebox cake it's a piece of cake johnny cake journey cake layer cake Linseed cake madeira cake marble cake mill cake mock cake moon cake mud cake mustard cake neem cake new year cake oil cake oilseed cake olive cake parliament cake piece of cake plum cake pound cake press cake prune cake queen cake rape cake rock cake roll cake rout cake salt cake sandwich cake seed cake shawnee cake simnel cake skillet cake small cake spice cake sponge cake swedish cheese cake sweet corn cake take the cake tea cake tipsy cake To have one's cake dough wafer cake wastel cake wedding cake white cake yeast cake. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "cake": cake-and-eat-it, cake-burning, cake-candles, cake-cutting, cake-eaters, cake-holes, cake-knife, cake-like, cake-lovers, cake-maker, cake-making, cake-mixes, cake-sellers, cake-shop, cake-shops, cake-shovelling, cake-stall, cake-stand, cake-tasting, cake-tin, cake-tray, cake-walk.

Ending with "cake": wedding-cake, worm-cake.

Containing "cake": choice-of-cake-to-follow, oil-cake meal, wedding-cake-style.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cake

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

wedding cake

12,288

cake decorating supply

481

cake

6,124

carrot cake

472

birthday cake

3,294

groom cake

468

cake decorating

2,584

cheese cake

457

cake recipe

2,356

wedding cake photo

444

picture of wedding cake

1,800

carrot cake recipe

397

diaper cake

1,477

funnel cake

394

wedding cake toppers

1,041

red velvet cake

370

baby shower cake

802

rum cake

354

cheese cake recipe

796

graduation cake

351

chocolate cake

758

pineapple upside down cake

343

crab cake

724

birthday cake idea

342

wedding cake design

707

cake decorating idea

340

cake topper

679

child birthday cake

332

cake decoration

663

pound cake

324

crab cake recipe

512

cake gallery wedding

309

cake pan

503

picture cake

307

wilton cake

490

wedding cake top

304

chocolate cake recipe

488

pound cake recipe

299

kid birthday cake

483

ice cream cake

297
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cake

Language Translations for "cake"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

tortë (flan, pastry, pie), qofte (croquette, faggot, fagot, meat ball, noisettes, rissole), petull (crepe, flapjack, griddle cake, pancake, slapjack), pastë (pastry, pure), pashtet, ngurtësohem (bind, concrete, indurate), mpikset (bind, coagulate, harden, jell, jellify, jelly), mpiks (clot, coagulate, congeal, stiffen), llokum (plum, turkish delight), kroket, kek (gem), kallëp (bar, block, form, frame, ingot, last, Mold, mould, pattern, shape, stamp). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏كسا (array, attire, clothe, coat, cover, drape, dress, encase, endue, equip, face, fur, garb, garment, gird, glaze, invest, overlay, panel, plate, rig out, robe, sheathe, spread, suit, turn out), ‏كعكةالفاكهة, ‏كعكة (bun, dough, gateau), ‏قشرة صلبة, ‏حشا (beef up, cram, jam, load, pack, pad, poke, quilt, ram, stuff, tamp, tampon, wad), ‏تخثر (clot, coagulate, congealment, curd, curdle, freeze, gel, thickening, thrombocyte, thrombosis), ‏صفعة (clap, cuff, slap, slat, smack, swipe, thwack, uppercut), ‏الأبله (blockhead, booby, cloddish, dolt, goof, goon, half wit, idiot, moron, natural). (various references)

   

Asturian

  

pastel. (various references)

   

Basque

  

pastel. (various references)

   

Bavarian

  

kuacha. (various references)

   

Bemba

  

keki. (various references)

   

Blackfoot

  

pisátsskiitaan. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

спичам (frit, sinter), торта, кубче, кекс, кейк, втвърдявам (calcify, concrete, congeal, cure, fasten, firm, fix, harden, indurate, knit, set, solidify), правя на питка, покривам плътно с, паста (paste), парче (bar, bit, catch, cob, cut, cutting, dollop, fragment, lump, patch, piece, portion, scrap, section, slice, slip, slipping, snatch, splint, splinter), питка (bap, griddle cake), пита (bannock, damper, disk, loaf). (various references)

   

Cebuano

  

torta. (various references)

   

Chamorro

  

fina'mames (dessert). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

蛋糕 . (various references)

   

Cornish

  

tesen. (various references)

   

Czech

  

cukrářský kousek, zákusek (dessert), mouèník (afters, dessert, pastry), kostka (bar, block, brick, check, cobbles, cube, lump, tablet, tessera), koláè (mince pie), koláč, dort (flan, flapjack, johnny-cake, layer-cake), buchta. (various references)

   

Danish

  

kage. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

koek (coke, dried cake, feeding cake, lump, oil cake, oil-cake, oilseed cake, olive cake, press-cake, wafer), cake. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

kuko. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

kaka. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

کیک , قالب کردن (Bloc, Block, Form, Found), قالب (Case, Cast, Model, Mold, Mould, Pat, Size, Standard), قرص (Brede, Disk, Pellet, Tablet), بشکل کیک دراوردن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kakku (fruit-cake). (various references)

   

French

  

gâteau. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

koeke. (various references)

   

Galician

  

pastel. (various references)

   

German

  

Kuchen (cakes, flan, gateau, mud pie). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κέικ, κρούστα (crust). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מעוג, להתקרש (congeal), תופין (biscuit, pastry), עוגה (gateau), גלוסקה (bun), צפיחית (nectar, wafer). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

torta (fancy cake, gateau, tart), sütemény (confectionery, pastry), zablepény, takarmánypogácsa (mill cake), tészta (batter, dough, pasta, paste), süti (cookie), pogácsa, húspogácsa (steak). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kue. (various references)

   

Irish

  

císte. (various references)

   

Italian

  

torta (pie, tart), focaccia (bun). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

グロー放電 (cage, case, case by case, case method, case study, casework, caseworker, chaos, chassis ground, frame ground, gloria, glossary, glow discharge, groggy, grotesque, knock-out, KO), (4th in rank, block, fourth sign of the Chinese calendar, leaf). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ケーキ , ちょう (billion, block, bowels, butterfly, condoling with, frivolity, government office, guts, hyper-, indication, intestines, leaf, mourning, omen, pitch, portent, sign, super-, tempo, time, tone, trillion, ultra-). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

케이크. (various references)

   

Macedonian

  

torta. (various references)

   

Manx

  

scroigey (encrust), jannoo keeak, glooghey (close, close as ranks, congest). (various references)

   

Maori

  

keke. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

kake. (various references)

   

Occitan

  

pastisson. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

kuki. (various references)

   

Pidgin English

  

akara (beans cake). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

akecay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

ciasto. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

bolo (cookie, pellet, stake). (various references)

   

Portuguese Brazilian

  

bolo. (various references)

   

Provencal

  

còca. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

chec (bun), turtã, tort (pie, thread), se întãri (firm, harden, intensify, recover tone, steady, stiffen, toughen), prinde coajã (encrust), pråjiturå, prãjiturã (biscuit), pesmet (biscuit), da formã de tort. (various references)

   

Romansch

  

petta. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

слежавшийся осадок, слеживаться (clod), спекаться торт, торт (pie), кусок (bit, cake of, chunk, dollop, length, lump, mouthful, nugget, piece, quid, scrap, slab, snippet), кекс, затвердевать (fix, solidify), жмых (mill cake, oil cake), лепешка грязи или глины, пряник (gingerbread, honey cake), плитка (bar, slats), пирожное. (various references)

   

Samoan

  

keke. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

bonnach (a cake). (various references)

   

Sepedi

  

kukisi. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zgrudvati se, torta (torte), stvrdnuti se. (various references)

   

Sicilian

  

torta. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

queque, tarta (cakes, gateau, pie, tart), torta (gateau, pie, Scone, tart, torte), pastel (baked goods, pastel, pasty, pi, pie, tart). (various references)

   

Swahili

  

keki. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kaka (biscuit, cookie, pastry, slab), tårta (gâteau, gateau, pie, tart, trifle), bakelse (pastry). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

mamón, keik. (various references)

   

Thai

  

เค้ก (gateau, gateaux), ส่วนแบ่ง (lot, quota, slice). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

pasta (confectionery, pastry, sweetmeat), parça (attachment, batch, bit, Cantle, component, cut, dribblet, driblet, fraction, fragment, gobbet, item, lump, moiety, morsel, part, passage, patch, piece, portion, scrap, segment, shred, snatch, tool), kek (muffin), katılaşmak (be hardened, concrete, congeal, set, solidify, stiffen), kalıplaşmak, kalıp (bar, cast, dies, form, formwork, master, matrix, model, Mold, mould, Pat, pattern, print, shape, stamp, stencil, tablet, template, templet, timber), kabuklaşmak, kabuklaşmış kir, kabuk bağlamak (encrust, form a crust, heal over, incrust, scab, scab over, scar over, skin over, Slough), çörek (biscuit, bun, cookie, tea bread, tea cake, tuck). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

tort (r). (various references)