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kakku — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bit noun A small piece or amount of something.
  • cake noun A sweet baked dessert made from flour, sugar, eggs, and other ingredients.
  • confection noun A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
  • pie noun A baked dish with a pastry crust and a filling, sweet or savoury.
  • porridge noun A soft, thick breakfast dish made by cooking oats or other grain in milk or water.
  • time noun The ongoing flow of existence in which events happen — what clocks and calendars measure in seconds, hours, days and years.
  • torte noun A rich, dense cake, typically made with many eggs and relatively little flour (as opposed to a sponge cake or gâteau).

Senses

kakku is used for these senses in English:

  • bit (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
  • cake A block of any various dense materials.
  • confection A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
  • gateau (mostly, UK) A rich, usually iced, cake.
  • pie (figuratively) The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
  • porridge (British, slang, uncountable) A prison sentence.
  • time (countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
  • torte A rich, dense cake, typically made with many eggs and relatively little flour (as opposed to a sponge cake or gâteau).

bit — full definition

  1. noun A small piece or amount of something.
  2. noun The smallest unit of digital information, representing a 0 or a 1.
  3. verb Past tense of "bite".

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.

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