[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/cake/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [C](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/c/) / cake # cake noun (cake, cakes); verb (cake, caked — covered thickly) «cake» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. A cake is a sweet baked food made of flour, eggs, sugar and butter, often for birthdays and parties. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cake/#m1) 2. A cake can be a flat round piece of other food: a fish cake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cake/#m2) 3. To be caked in mud is to be thickly covered in it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cake/#m3) ### In the lessons a thing counted, made and sold by a baker, or cut into equal pieces; cakes are good for fractions: half a cake, a quarter of a cake; phrases: «a piece of cake» (very easy), «birthday cake», «bake a cake», «cupcake» ### Examples - The baker made 110 cakes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cake/#x1) - He sold 75 cakes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cake/#x2) - A cake is cut into 8 pieces. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cake/#x3) - How many more cakes than pastries did he sell? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cake/#x4) - We baked a chocolate cake for Dad. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cake/#x5) - Can I have a piece of cake? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cake/#x6) - The test was a piece of cake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cake/#x7) - His boots were caked in mud. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cake/#x8) - The cakes were smoking on the hearth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cake/#x9) ### Note Countable (a cake, cakes) and uncountable (some cake). A thing counted. «made» adds, «sold» or «ate» takes away; «cut into N pieces» makes equal parts. Trap: cakes and pastries are counted apart. «a piece of cake» can mean «very easy». ## In Jewish tradition In the Torah cakes were made of fine flour and were used in offerings, such as unleavened cakes, or as food, as when Sarah baked for her guests. **Interpretation.** The twelve cakes of the showbread were set out each Sabbath in the holy tent. The rabbis saw in them the twelve tribes before God. ### Examples - With cakes of leavened bread he shall present his offering with the sacrifice of his peace-offerings for thanksgiving. (Torah LEV.7.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#x1) - And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake. (Torah LEV.24.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#x2) - And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said: 'Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.' (Torah GEN.18.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#x3) - Ephraim, he mixeth himself with the peoples; Ephraim is become a cake not turned. (Prophets HOS.7.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#x4) - And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes. (Prophets 2SA.13.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#x5) - And they will salute thee, and give thee two cakes of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hand. (Prophets 1SA.10.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/#x6) ### Note Countable (a cake, cakes) and uncountable (some cake). A thing counted. «made» adds, «sold» or «ate» takes away; «cut into N pieces» makes equal parts. Trap: cakes and pastries are counted apart. «a piece of cake» can mean «very easy». ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «cake» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cake/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«cake» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cake.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «cake» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cake/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«cake» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/cake.html) on Mova free.