蛋糕 — meaning in English

English meaning

• cake noun A sweet baked dessert made from flour, sugar, eggs, and other ingredients.
• jackpot noun A large cash prize, especially in gambling, that grows until someone wins it.
• pie noun A baked dish with a pastry crust and a filling, sweet or savoury.
• tart adj Having a sharp, sour taste.

Senses

蛋糕 is used for these senses in English:

• cake A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
• cuff on the ear A box on the ear; a painful smack on the side of the head.
• galette A type of flat, round cake from France.
• gateau (mostly, UK) A rich, usually iced, cake.
• jackpot A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.
• pie A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. (Savory pies are more popular in the UK and sweet pies are more popular in the US, so "pie" without qualification has different connotations in these dialects.)
• pie (transitive) To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
• sponge cake A light, soft, baked dessert (commonly layered with cream and jam) that is typically made with flour, sugar, baking powder and eggs, and has a firm, yet well aerated structure, similar to that of a sea sponge.

cake — full definition

1. noun A sweet baked dessert made from flour, sugar, eggs, and other ingredients.
2. verb To coat something thickly, or to harden into a solid crusted layer.

jackpot — full definition

1. noun A large cash prize, especially in gambling, that grows until someone wins it.
2. noun Any unexpected and very welcome windfall.

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