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Определение to cake в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: A block of any of various dense materials
A cake of soap.; A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing; money; {v} to form into a lump or concretion; {n} a small loaf, a compsition of flour, butter, sweetened, a concretion of flesh; made from or based on a mixture of flour and sugar and eggs; A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp; A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake; A sweet baked confection containing flour, sugar, eggs, oil or butter and flavoring ingredients; > dangao; A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape; A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, eggs, and baked in an oven; To form into a cake, or mass; Synthetic thread piled into ring shape; A fool, a poor thing (Cf HALF-BAKED ); Hybrid formation of flatfliers and freefliers; A cake of soap is a small block of it. a small cake of lime-scented soap; into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake; A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes; A coalesced mass of unpressed metal powder; The solids discharged from a dewatering apparatus; - a repeating aerial firework consisting of many shots, named after its usual short, cake-like appearance; form a coat over; "Dirt had coated her face"; emphasis If someone has done something very stupid, rude, or selfish, you can say that they take the cake or that what they have done takes the cake, to emphasize your surprise at their behaviour. = take the biscuit; disapproval If you think that someone wants the benefits of doing two things when it is only reasonable to expect the benefits of doing one, you can say that they want to have their cake and eat it. What he wants is a switch to a market economy in a way which does not reduce people's standard of living. To many this sounds like wanting to have his cake and eat it; Food that is formed into flat round shapes before it is cooked can be referred to as cakes. fish cakes. home-made potato cakes; To cackle as a goose; The accumulation of solids and filter media on the surface of a septum; Money (noun) Currency, cash money/"Cake be the root of all evil "; Dewatered sludge material with a satisfactory solids concentration to allow handling as a solid material; A copper ingot rectangular in cross section intended for rolling Camber Edgewise curvature A lateral departure of a side edge of sheet or strip metal from a straight line; To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate; small flat mass of chopped food; A small layer of protective carbon allowed to form and remain in the bowl of a briar pipe The cake protects the briar from burning but too much cake can split the pipe by causing uneven heating of the bowl; {i} sweet baked food; shaped compact mass (i.e. cake of soap); Coat (something) with a crust of solid material; a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate"; A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake; n kue; a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate" made from or based on a mixture of flour and sugar and eggs; Colloquial term for a multishot battery, arising from the outward appearance of many of the smaller items (e g 90 shot cakes); khanom cake; the icing on the cake: see icing; {f} congeal; coat (as with a layer of mud); become coated; shape into a compact mass; be shaped into a compact mass; An annoying irony From the phrase "You can'thave your cake and eat it too " Mostly used to refer to something sought after only to be found it's useless; If you think something is very easy to do, you can say it is a piece of cake. People often say this to stop someone feeling worried about doing something they have to do. Just another surveillance job, old chap. Piece of cake to somebody like you; A cake is a sweet food, usually made by baking a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs and fat; A cake is a sweet food made by baking a mixture of flour, eggs, sugar, and fat in an oven. Cakes may be large and cut into slices or small and intended for one person only. a piece of cake Would you like some chocolate cake? little cakes with white icing