Le mot anglais du jour

cake

gâteau

Définitions

anglais > français
cake
1. n. Gâteau.
A carrot cake.
Un gâteau aux carottes.
2. n. Morceau.
A cake of soap.
3. v. Enrober d'une croûte de matière solide.
His shoes are caked with mud.
anglais > anglais
cake
1. n. A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
2. n. A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
an oatmeal cake
a johnnycake
3. n. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
buckwheat cakes
4. n. A block of any of various dense materials.
a cake of soap
a cake of sand
5. n. (slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
6. n. (slang) Money.
7. n. Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
8. n. (slang) An exceptionally plump and callipygous female buttock.
9. v. Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
His shoes are caked with mud.
10. v. To form into a cake, or mass.
11. v. (dialect) To cackle like a goose.
français > anglais
gâteau
1. n-m. a sponge cake, i.e. a cake made with a chemical leavening agent (e.g. baking powder), making it light and airy (as opposed to a denser torte)
2. n-m. (Louisiana French) a cookie