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# pancake

«pancake» in Mova's school dictionary: **a thin, flat, round cake made from a batter of flour…** — 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 (a pancake, pancakes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pancake is a thin, flat, round cake made from a batter of flour, eggs and milk, cooked in a frying pan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pancake/#m1)

2) "Flat as a pancake" means very flat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pancake/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, pancakes are eaten with syrup, lemon and sugar, or fruit. British, Irish and some Australian families eat pancakes on Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday), with pancake races and flipping. American pancakes are thick and small; British ones are thin like crêpes.

### examples

- We had pancakes with maple syrup for breakfast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pancake/#x1)
- Dad flipped the pancake in the air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pancake/#x2)
- On Pancake Day we eat pancakes with lemon and sugar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pancake/#x3)
- Mix flour, eggs and milk to make pancake batter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pancake/#x4)
- The land here is flat as a pancake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pancake/#x5)
- I ran in a pancake race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pancake/#x6)
- Then good food was set before them, milk and pancakes, with sugar, apples, and nuts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pancake/#x7)

### note

Countable. One word. In maths recipe problems, double the batter to make twice as many pancakes.

### In the corpora

- [Blueberries hold the same kind of colour, which is why blueberry pancakes with too much baking soda get green streaks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow/4/)
- [Mia noticed and kept one Saturday morning just for the two of them, with pancakes and no crowd.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/9/)
- [Gareth makes Leon pancakes every Saturday and sits through his fractions without sighing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner/16/)
- [smetAna is sour cream, put on borshch, vareNYky and pancakes; it is sour, not sweet like whipped cream.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/9/)
- [mlyntsI are thin pancakes eaten with jam or cottage cheese; rolled with a filling they may be called nalysnyky.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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