cake
part of speech
noun (cake, cakes); verb (cake, caked — covered thickly)
meaning for a pupil
1) A cake is a sweet baked food made of flour, eggs, sugar and butter, often for birthdays and parties. tree →
2) A cake can be a flat round piece of other food: a fish cake. tree →
3) To be caked in mud is to be thickly covered in it. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah cakes were made of fine flour and were used in offerings, such as unleavened cakes, or as food, as when Sarah baked for her guests. Interpretation: The twelve cakes of the showbread were set out each Sabbath in the holy tent. The rabbis saw in them the twelve tribes before God. In the primary lessons: a thing counted, made and sold by a baker, or cut into equal pieces; cakes are good for fractions: half a cake, a quarter of a cake; phrases: «a piece of cake» (very easy), «birthday cake», «bake a cake», «cupcake»
examples
- With cakes of leavened bread he shall present his offering with the sacrifice of his peace-offerings for thanksgiving. (Torah LEV.7.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake. (Torah LEV.24.5, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said: 'Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.' (Torah GEN.18.6, JPS 1917) tree →
- Ephraim, he mixeth himself with the peoples; Ephraim is become a cake not turned. (Prophets HOS.7.8, JPS 1917) tree →
- And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes. (Prophets 2SA.13.8, JPS 1917) tree →
- And they will salute thee, and give thee two cakes of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hand. (Prophets 1SA.10.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- The baker made 110 cakes. tree →
- He sold 75 cakes. tree →
- A cake is cut into 8 pieces. tree →
- How many more cakes than pastries did he sell? tree →
- We baked a chocolate cake for Dad. tree →
- Can I have a piece of cake? tree →
- The test was a piece of cake. tree →
- His boots were caked in mud. tree →
- The cakes were smoking on the hearth. tree →
note
Countable (a cake, cakes) and uncountable (some cake). A thing counted. «made» adds, «sold» or «ate» takes away; «cut into N pieces» makes equal parts. Trap: cakes and pastries are counted apart. «a piece of cake» can mean «very easy».
In the corpora
- With cakes of leavened bread he shall present his offering with the sacrifice of his peace-offerings for thanksgiving.
- And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake.
- And they will salute thee, and give thee two cakes of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hand.
- And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.
- Ephraim, he mixeth himself with the peoples; Ephraim is become a cake not turned.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «cake» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.