flour,
eggs, butter, sugar, etc. that is baked in an oven. Cakes are made in various
shapes and sizes and are often decorated, for example with cream or icing.
£t£: a piece/slice of cake to
make/bake a cake lift / 0 a chocolate cake Pj ft
^Jll 0 a birthday
cake £ HU 0 (BrE) a cake tin (= for cooking a cake
in) /S: 0 (NAmE) a cake pan
Jiti j# /§: —
see also angel food cake, Christmas
CAKE, FRUIT
CAKE, SPONGE CAKE, WEDDING CAKE 2 [C] a
food
mixture that is cooked in a round flat shape
: potato
cakes — see also cattle cake, fishcake ITiTOl have your cake and 'eat it (Brf) (also have your cake and eat it too NAmE, BrE) to have the advantages of sth without its
disadvantages; to have both things that are available % ^ fij M ft S $£ ; W # a slice/share of the 'cake (BrE) (NAmE a piece/ slice/share of the 'pie) a share of the available money or
benefits that you believe you have a right to jStM#
) take the 'cake (especially NAmE) = take
the biscuit at biscuit —more at hot adj.,
ICING, PIECE n.
s verb 1 [VN] [usually passive] ~ sth (in/with sth) to cover sth with a thick
layer of sth soft that becomes hard when it dries ( ) SI: Her
shoes were caked with mud. 2 [V] if a
sub-stance cakes, it becomes hard when it dries ( :f fB ) 'MU ►caked adj.: caked blood M*$T ftjlfiL
cake-walk /'keikwoik/ noun [sing.] (informal) something that is extremely easy to do
cala-bash /'kselabaeJ7 noun 1 a container made from the hard covering of
a fruit or vegetable; the fruit or vegetable from which a calabash is made n §fg ; mn GOURD 2 (also 'calabash
tree) the tropical tree that produces
these fruits
cala brese /'kaelabriis;
.kaela'brhs/ noun [u] a type of broccoli (= a vegetable with a thick green stem and green or purple flower heads) 0 -f it
cala mine /'kaelamain/
(also calamine
lotion) noun [U] a pink liquid that you put on burnt or
sore skin to make it less painful MHlfe
ca
lami t ous /ka'laemitas/
adj. (formal) causing great damage to people’s lives,
property, etc. ( ®t/*-
^ Baa disastrous
ca lam ity /ka'laemati/ noun [C, U] (pi. -jes) an event that causes great damage to
people’s lives, property, etc. 3feK£; 0021 disaster
cal-cif-er-ous /kael'sifaras/ adj. (geology ilk)
containing or producing chalk or
other forms of calcium ^ g|
cal cify /'kaelsifai/ verb (cal-ci-fies, cal-ci-fy-ing, cal ci
fied,
cal-ci-fied)
[V, VN] (technical A ip) to become hard or make sth hard by
adding calcium salts ( ^ it,
#ft ► cal ci fi ca tion /.kselsifi'keijn/ noun [U] cal-cite /'kaelsait/ noun [U] (chemistry it) a white or clear mineral
consisting of calcium carbonate. It
forms a major part of rocks such as limestone,
marble and
CHALK, ff ffiif
cal cium /'kaelsiam/
noun [U] (symb Ca) a chemical element. Calcium is a soft
silver-white metal that is found in bones, teeth and chalk. ^
.calcium
'carbonate noun [u] (symb CaC03) (chemistry it) a white solid substance that
exists naturally as
CHALK,
LIMESTONE and MARBLE
cal cul able /'kaelkjalobl/ adj. that can be calculated flT if U
(ft; »T if (ft • a calculable risk oj ® if (ft t<l — compare incalculable Cal-CU-late 0-w /*kaelkjuleit/ verb 1 to use numbers to find out a
total number, amount, distance, etc. if#; CCT7I work out:
[VN] Use the
formula to calculate the volume of the container. it W- W tS (ft # 3\ o 0 Benefit is calculated on
the basis of average weekly earnings, th &] if. M A M Ji A it % 0 o [V wh ] You’ll need to calculate how much time the
assign-