(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).
Whatnot
Definition:
(n.) A kind of stand, or piece of furniture, having shelves for books, ornaments, etc.; an etagere.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Would the new generation of MBM follower prefer an sms style of LOLs and whatnot?"
(2) We've all grown out of the excitement for eating the morning pre-dawn meal and getting invited to iftar meals and whatnot.
(3) "Way back when, in the days when the tournament was young, I posted something I'd figured out about penalty shootouts, extra time, attacking football and whatnot.
(4) Much was made about it because of her father and whatnot, but we had a simple relationship in my opinion.
(5) When we meet again at the Toronto film festival, where The Fifth Estate has just premiered, he is surrounded by a circus of publicists, people with clipboards, stylists and whatnot, but the easy, unguarded friendliness has somehow survived.
(6) Ayckbourn's early plays Christmas V Mastermind (1962) and Mr Whatnot (1963) were staged at the Vic.
(7) I’m about to wander round Mill Hill with PJ O’Rourke and get him to tell me stories about legendary US election campaigns whilst vaguely paying attention to Boris calling into wine merchants and whatnot.
(8) "I was concerned about my private jet travel and whatnot ...
(9) "We haven't seen the usual high and wide early shots and whatnot that we've had over the last few tournament when they introduce the newest helium-filled 99p beach fizz."
(10) "This sort of leisurely boffinry is just the ticket in these days of X Factor arsery and Made In Chelsea and whatnot."
(11) This is not a great way to spy on you in the bathroom and whatnot."
(12) He's making pigs run off cliffs, he's possessing people and whatnot.
(13) Music that he would respond to, music that reflects the world he’s living in, things he would have listened to growing up or whatnot.” He’ll play them in his trailer or driving to the set.
(14) Look, don't get me wrong about Affleck: he seems like a nice guy, and I was made up for him over that business with the Iranian hostage movie and the beardy Oscar and whatnot, even if best picture is an award also recently bestowed upon the likes of Crash and The Hurt Locker (huzzah for movies which dispense with yesteryear concepts like "stories" and "characters anyone could give a toss about").
(15) This is because Amazon is expected to subsidise the cost of the handset and the monthly price plan using the revenue from the vast amount of Amazon media, electronics and whatnot you are inevitably going to purchase with it.
(16) I want the simple Oxo gravy or Bisto, not this fancy rubbish with wine and whatnot in it.
(17) Just email your thoughts, questions, jokes and whatnot to Hunter.Felt@theguardian.com or tweet @HunterFelt .
(18) It’s great content on there: they want WAV files and whatnot.
(19) Everything here is rendered super-tempting with purées, caviar, truffle oils and whatnot, but for a hot day, try the red tuna sashimi with wakame followed by mandarin sorbet with vodka.
(20) Yes, of course it means that I can reach things on shelves and whatnot.