Definition of: cake

(kāk) noun
1. A baked mixture of flour, eggs, milk, etc.: distinguished from bread or pudding.
2. A small or thin mass of dough, etc., baked or fried: pancake.
3. A hardened mass of any material: a cake of soap, etc.
4. Pathol. A morbid hardening or coagulation in the body.
—to take the cake Colloq. To take the prize; be the best of or at something.
—v.t. & v.i. caked, cak·ing To form into a hardened mass. [<ON kaka]