¹ cake noun

• a sweet baked food made from a mixture of flour, sugar, and other ingredients (such as eggs and butter) —often used before another noun
• a mixture of food that has been shaped into a ball or a flat round shape and baked or fried
• something that is shaped like a rectangular block

² cake verb

• to cover something with an outer layer that becomes hard as it dries—usually used as (be) caked
• to become dry and hard