torta — meaning in English

English meaning

• cake noun A sweet baked dessert made from flour, sugar, eggs, and other ingredients.
• gateau noun A rich cake, usually covered with icing or filled with cream or fruit.
• pie noun A baked dish with a pastry crust and a filling, sweet or savory.
• roundel noun Something with a round shape, such as a circle.
• tart adj Having a sharp, sour taste.

Senses

torta 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.
• gateau (mostly, UK) A rich, usually iced, cake.
• 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 Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
• roundel (heraldiccharge) A circular spot; a charge in the form of a small coloured circle.
• tart A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, now typically containing jelly (US) / jam (UK) or conserve, or sometimes other fillings (chocolate, custard, egg, butter, historically even meat or other savory fillings).

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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