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# cake

«cake» in Mova's school dictionary: **a sweet baked food made of flour, eggs, sugar and butter…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (cake, cakes); verb (cake, caked — covered thickly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cake is a sweet baked food made of flour, eggs, sugar and butter, often for birthdays and parties. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cake/#m3)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cake/#x1)
- He sold 75 cakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cake/#x2)
- A cake is cut into 8 pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cake/#x3)
- How many more cakes than pastries did he sell? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cake/#x4)
- We baked a chocolate cake for Dad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cake/#x5)
- Can I have a piece of cake? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cake/#x6)
- The test was a piece of cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cake/#x7)
- His boots were caked in mud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cake/#x8)
- The cakes were smoking on the hearth. [tree →](https://md.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 the corpora

- [Cakes rise with baking powder or whisked eggs instead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/6/)
- [Cakes rise without yeast, using baking powder or whisked eggs to trap gas that expands in the oven heat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/18/)
- [Wild guesses with no link to the text, like a dragon turning into a cake for no reason, are not good predictions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/19-prediction-what-happens-next/15/)
- [In the active voice the subject does the action: "The dog ate the cake."](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/5/)
- [In the passive voice the subject receives the action: "The cake was eaten by the dog."](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cake» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cake/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.