1.  cake(n = noun.artifact) bar - a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate"
is a kind of block
has particulars: tablet

2.  cake(n = noun.food) patty - small flat mass of chopped food;
is a kind of dish
has particulars: fish ball, fish cake

3.  cake(n = noun.food) - baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat;
is a kind of baked goods
has particulars: applesauce cake, baba, birthday cake, cheesecake, chiffon cake, chocolate cake, coconut cake, coffee cake, coffeecake, crumb cake, crumpet, cupcake, eccles cake, fruitcake, gateau, sponge cake, bridecake, wedding cake, white cake, spice cake, gingerbread, pound cake, layer cake, torte, petit four, prune cake, jumbal, jumble, savarin, boston cream pie, skillet cake, upside-down cake, honey cake, marble cake, genoise, seed cake, seedcake, teacake, biscuit, cookie, cooky, friedcake, battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake, pancake, waffle, rock cake, victoria sandwich, victoria sponge

   cake(v = verb.contact) coat - form a coat over; "Dirt had coated her face"
is one way to cover, spread over
Sample sentences: Something ----s something

1.  A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake. [1913 Webster]

2.  A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape. [1913 Webster]

3.  A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes. [1913 Webster]

4.  A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake. [1913 Webster]
"Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood." [1913 Webster]

   To form into a cake, or mass. [1913 Webster]

   To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate. [1913 Webster]
"Clotted blood that caked within." [1913 Webster]

   To cackle as a goose. [1913 Webster]

cake, n. & v.
--n.
1 a a mixture of flour, butter, eggs, sugar, etc., baked in the oven. b a quantity of this baked in a flat round or ornamental shape and often iced and decorated.
2 a other food in a flat round shape (fish cake). b = cattle-cake.
3 a flattish compact mass (a cake of soap).
4 Sc. & N.Engl. thin oaten bread.
--v.
1 tr. & intr. form into a compact mass.
2 tr. (usu. foll. by with) cover (with a hard or sticky mass) (boots caked with mud).

Idiom:
cakes and ale merrymaking. have one's cake and eat it colloq. enjoy both of two mutually exclusive alternatives. like hot cakes rapidly or successfully. a piece of cake colloq. something easily achieved. a slice of the cake participation in benefits.

Etymology:
ME f. ON kaka

VB  cohere, adhere, stick, cling, cleave, hold, take hold of, hold fast, close with, clasp, hug, grow together, hang together, twine round, stick like a leech, stick like wax, stick close, cling like ivy, cling like a bur, adhere like a remora, adhere like Dejanira's shirt, glue, agglutinate, conglutinate, cement, lute, paste, gum, solder, weld, cake, consolidate, agglomerate.

N  density, solidity, solidness, impenetrability, impermeability, incompressibility, imporosity, cohesion, constipation, consistence, spissitude, specific gravity, hydrometer, areometer, condensation, caseation, solidation, solidification, consolidation, concretion, coagulation, petrification, crystallization, precipitation, deposit, precipitate, inspissation, gelation, thickening, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, insolubility, indissolvableness, solid body, mass, block, knot, lump, concretion, concrete, conglomerate, cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum, bone, gristle, cartilage, casein, crassamentum, legumin, superdense matter, condensed states of matter, dwarf star, neutron star, dense, solid, solidified, caseous, pukka, coherent, cohesive, compact, close, serried, thickset, substantial, massive, lumpish, impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous, incompressible, constipated, concrete, knotted, knotty, gnarled, crystalline, crystallizable, thick, grumous, stuffy, undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed, indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.

VB  be dense, become solid, render solid, solidify, solidate, concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate, curd, curdle, lopper, fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere, crystallize, petrify, condense, thicken, gel, inspissate, incrassate, compress, squeeze, ram down, constipate.

N  sweetness, dulcitude, sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna, confection, confectionary, sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture, jam, julep, sugar-candy, sugar-plum, licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat, apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose, maple sirup, maple syrup, maple sugar, mithai, sorghum, taffy, nectar, hydromel, mead, meade, metheglin, honeysuckle, liqueur, sweet wine, aperitif, sugar cane, sugar beets, desert, pastry, pie, cake, candy, ice cream, tart, puff, pudding (food), dulcification, dulcoration, sweetener, corn syrup, cane sugar, refined sugar, beet sugar, dextrose, artificial sweetener, saccharin, cyclamate, aspartame, Sweet'N Low, sweet, saccharine, sacchariferous, dulcet, candied, honied, luscious, lush, nectarious, melliferous, sweetened, sweet as a nut, sweet as sugar, sweet as honey, sickly sweet, eau sucr_ee, sweets to the sweet.

angel cake, angel food cake, applesauce cake, ash cake, birthday cake, buckwheat cake, cake mix, cattle cake, chiffon cake, chocolate cake, christmas cake, coconut cake, codfish cake, coffee cake, corn cake, cotton cake, cottonseed cake, crumb cake, devil's food cake, eccles cake, fish cake, flannel cake, genoa cake, honey cake, hot cake, ice-cream cake, icebox cake, johnny cake, journey cake, layer cake, madeira cake, marble cake, neem cake, oil cake, piece of cake, pound cake, press cake, prune cake, rock cake, rout cake, seed cake, shawnee cake, skillet cake, spice cake, sponge cake, take the cake, tipsy cake, upside-down cake, wedding cake, white cake, yeast cake