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cake

 
 
/keɪk/ noun [C, U]

Translation

a sweet food made from flour, butter, sugar, and eggs mixed together and baked
pasta, kek
a chocolate/fruit cake a piece/slice of cake to bake/make a cake 880
have your cake and eat it to have or do two things that it is usually impossible to have or do at the same time
ne yardan ne serden vazgeçmek, her iki şeyi de yapmak; bir şeyden her iki manada kâr sağlamak
2034
→ See also the icing on the cake → See also be a piece of cake
(Definition of cake noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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