cake

cake — noun

1. a sweet oven-made food with flour, eggs, sugar, and fat, often served in slices.

1.名詞A1
釋義

a sweet oven-made food with flour, eggs, sugar, and fat, often served in slices.

例句

Aiko baked a lemon cake for her sister's school concert.

bake a cake

We ate chocolate cake in the garden after the long game.

collocation: chocolate cake

同義詞
  • dessert

    a broader word for sweet food eaten after a meal, not one specific baked item

  • sponge

    a light kind of cake, especially in British English

  • gateau

    a more formal word, often for a rich layered cake

文法句型

a cake

birthday cake

chocolate cake

a piece of cake

a slice of cake

用法筆記

Often countable when you mean a whole baked item, and often uncountable when you mean some of it as food. English commonly uses 'piece' or 'slice' when only part is being served.

常見錯誤

❌I ate one cake after lunch.
✅I ate one piece of cake after lunch.
💡use 'piece' or 'slice' when you mean part of a cake, not a whole cake.

2. a small flat piece of food or another soft material that has been shaped or pres

2.名詞C1
釋義

a small flat piece of food or another soft material that has been shaped or pressed into one solid unit.

例句

The soap came as a round cake in a small metal box.

pattern: a cake of soap

For lunch, Wen fried two fish cakes with cabbage.

collocation: fish cakes

同義詞
  • patty

    usually refers to a small flat piece of food, especially meat or vegetables

  • block

    can be larger and more square, and does not suggest a flat shape

  • disk

    describes the shape, but not the idea of pressed material

文法句型

a cake of soap

a cake of mud

fish cakes

rice cakes

用法筆記

Often appears with 'of' for non-food material, as in 'a cake of soap' or 'a cake of mud'. With food, it commonly names small flat items such as fish cakes or rice cakes.

cake — verb