What's the difference between cake and icing?

Cake


Definition:

  • (n.) A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
  • (n.) A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
  • (n.) A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
  • (n.) A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake.
  • (v. i.) To form into a cake, or mass.
  • (v. i.) To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.
  • (v. i.) To cackle as a goose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "With hyperspectral imaging, you can tell the chemical content of a cake just by taking a photo of it.
  • (2) Okawa, who became the world's oldest person last June following the death at 116 of fellow Japanese Jiroemon Kimura , was given a cake with just three candles at her nursing home in Osaka – one for each figure in her age.
  • (3) The physical effects of chlorination as demonstrated by experiments with batters and cakes and by physicochemical observations of flour and its fractions are also considered.
  • (4) You’d be staggered by the number of dimwitted debutantes who stand for photos next to cakes iced with the famous double-C. You know how you wanted a Spider-Man cake when you were little, and your mum made you Spider-Man cake, and it was the happiest birthday of your life?
  • (5) About 35 million were egg-laying hens that provided 80% of the eggs for the breaker market – eggs broken then liquefied, dried or frozen to be used in processed foods like mayonnaise and pancake mixes, or sold to bakeries to make cakes, cookies and other products.
  • (6) On the programme, the bakes begin to become divorced from their function as food; they become symbols, like the cardboard cakes that were sometimes used at British weddings during the war when shortages ruled out the real thing.
  • (7) Layer Cake was credited as Craig’s audition for James Bond.
  • (8) There's squash and cake, and the atmosphere is a bit like a staff meeting, something the teenagers don't have much experience of.
  • (9) The Norwegian researchers looked at all the sources of caffeine ingested by the pregnant women, including coffee, tea and fizzy drinks, along with cakes and desserts containing cocoa (which has lots of caffeine).
  • (10) When it comes to Donald Trump, the cake is baked, and almost everything that happens – negative or positive – only serves to reinforce existing perceptions of the candidates.
  • (11) Female undergraduates (N = 50 and N = 46 in the two studies) were given cards containing the names of randomly-selected generic foods (e.g., cakes, melons) and were asked to "group the foods according to how you think about them when it comes to eating them".
  • (12) At stake: rice cakes, a gift basket, and a somewhat condescending hockey puck.
  • (13) In general, healthy panelists evaluated the cakes as sweeter, crust bitterness as greater, and overall eating quality as higher than the panel members with carbohydrate metabolic disorders.
  • (14) To make the ricotta cakes, separate the egg yolks from the whites, putting the whites into a bowl large enough to beat them in.
  • (15) But what started out as a simple, easy to collect tax – a low, flat rate imposed on most goods and services – has become increasingly complex, with exemptions for everything from children's clothes to Jaffa Cakes.
  • (16) Today, with published documents augmented by journalistic and academic research, we can see exactly how the Maastricht cake was baked.
  • (17) Percentage dry matter of the litter and a subjective evaluation of general litter conditions (moisture and caking) were scored weekly, with the percentage nitrogen and total quality of litter produced in each chamber measured at the conclusion of the study.
  • (18) Sensory evaluation indicated no significant differences (P less than 0.05) between the control and 10 per cent bran cakes for moistness, flavor, and overall acceptability.
  • (19) Bonus recipe: stress-free custard I was taught how to make this by Claire Ptak, who runs Violet Cakes in east London.
  • (20) At a recent rally in Dresden, Bachmann’s hometown, he told his followers that while asylum seekers enjoyed luxury accommodation, many impoverished German pensioners were “unable to even afford a single slice of Stollen” (German Christmas cake).

Icing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ice
  • (n.) A coating or covering resembling ice, as of sugar and milk or white of egg; frosting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
  • (2) A technique, using Nuclepore polycarbonate membrane filters as a containing medium for very small volumes of ionic standard solutions, to produce homogeneous ice standards is described.
  • (3) Combined hypertension treatment with inhibitors of the converting enzyme (ICE) and diuretocs gives manifold advantages, the most important of them is a synergistic action of both drugs resulting in blood pressure decrease and prevention of hypokaliaemia.
  • (4) The compromised ice sheet tilts and he sinks into the Arctic Sea on the back of his faltering white Icelandic pony.
  • (5) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
  • (6) Bobbing in warming waters, this ancient ice fossil will be gone in a couple of weeks.
  • (7) A compilation of injuires sustained in an amateur ice hockey program over a tw0-year period revealed that the majority of those injuires were facial lacerations.
  • (8) The sea ice usually then begins to freeze again over the winter.
  • (9) An ice axe, assumed to belong to Irvine, had been discovered in 1933 by the fourth British expedition to the mountain.
  • (10) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
  • (11) The R&D team at Unilever, the British-Dutch behemoth that makes 40% of the ice creams we eat in the UK – Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Cornetto and Carte D'Or among them – has invested heavily to create products that are both healthier and creamier.
  • (12) Best Buy – it says the machine "churns excellent ice cream quickly and without too much noise".
  • (13) The loss of summer sea ice has led to unusual warming of the Arctic atmosphere, that in turn impacts weather patterns in the northern hemisphere , that can result in persistent extreme weather such as droughts, heatwaves and flooding," she said.
  • (14) ScalesOfJustice 18 September 2013 12:47pm If we go back to 1998, it appears as though global temperatures have stopped increasing, however Arctic temperatures have increased quite strongly - hence the strong decline in sea-ice since 1998.
  • (15) For the last two decades, the research on fish "antifreeze" proteins has focused exclusively on their ability to depress noncolligatively blood plasma freezing points, presumably by binding to ice crystals.
  • (16) You’d be staggered by the number of dimwitted debutantes who stand for photos next to cakes iced with the famous double-C. You know how you wanted a Spider-Man cake when you were little, and your mum made you Spider-Man cake, and it was the happiest birthday of your life?
  • (17) A registry, established by the Committee on Prevention of Spinal Cord Injuries Due to Hockey, of major injuries to the spine or spinal cord sustained while playing ice hockey contains 117 cases entered between January 1966 and March 1987; 112 of these injuries were sustained in Canada.
  • (18) His consecration took place at an ice hockey stadium in Durham, New Hampshire, and he wore a bulletproof vest under his gold vestments because he had received death threats.
  • (19) The melting of sea ice, ice caps and glaciers across the planet is one of the clearest signs of global warming and the UK-led team of scientists will use the data from CryoSat-2 to track how this is affecting ocean currents, sea levels and the overall global climate.
  • (20) Business in Dadaab For others like Abdihakim, the ice shop owner, Dadaab is home.