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pan·cake
(păn′kāk′)n.
A thin cake made of batter that is poured onto a hot greased surface and cooked on both sides until brown. Also called flannel cake, flapjack, griddle cake, hotcake; also called regionally battercake.
v. pan·caked, pan·cak·ing, pan·cakes
v.tr.
To cause (an aircraft) to make a pancake landing.
v.intr.
1. To make a pancake landing.
2. To fall flat to the ground with great force, especially to collapse in such a way that higher floors or structures fall directly on the ones beneath.
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pancake
(ˈpænˌkeɪk)n
1. (Cookery)
a. a thin flat cake made from batter and fried on both sides, often served rolled and filled with a sweet or savoury mixture
b. (as modifier): pancake mix.
2. (Cookery) a Scot name for drop scone
3. (Hairdressing & Grooming) a stick or flat cake of compressed make-up
4. (Aeronautics) Also called: pancake landing an aircraft landing made by levelling out a few feet from the ground and then dropping onto it
vb
(Aeronautics) to cause (an aircraft) to make a pancake landing or (of an aircraft) to make a pancake landing
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pan•cake
(ˈpænˌkeɪk)n., v. -caked, -cak•ing. n.
1. a thin, flat cake of batter fried on both sides on a griddle or in a frying pan; griddlecake or flapjack.
2. Also called pan′cake land`ing. an airplane landing made by pancaking.
v.i. 3. (of an airplane) to drop flat to the ground after leveling off a few feet above it.
v.t. 4. Informal. to flatten, esp. as the result of a mishap.
5. to cause (an airplane) to pancake.
[1400–50]
Pan-Cake
(ˈpænˌkeɪk)Trademark.
a brand of cosmetic in a semimoist cake of compressed powder, usu. applied with a moist sponge.
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pancake
- blin - As in blini and blintze, it is Russian for "pancake."
- blintz, blintze - Blintz(e) is from Russian blinets, "little pancake."
- cake - A Viking contribution, from Old Norse kaka, it is related to "cook"; cake first meant small, flat bread roll baked on both sides by being turned—as in pancake or potato cake.
- omelet, omelette - Omelet has also been written omelette, amulet, and aumelet; omelet's root sense is "thin layer" or "crepe," and it was first described in English as a "pancake of eggs."
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pancake
Past participle: pancaked
Gerund: pancaking
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| Noun | 1. |  pancake - a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddlecake - baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat buckwheat cake - a pancake made with buckwheat flour buttermilk pancake - a pancake made with buttermilk blini, bliny - Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour cream german pancake, pfannkuchen - puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce latke, potato pancake - made of grated potato and egg with a little flour tortilla - thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour |
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pancake
noun crêpe, drop scone or Scotch pancake I adore pancakes with maple syrup.
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Translations
فَطيرَة مُحَلاّة: بانكيكفَطِيرَةٌ مُحْلَاةٌ
palačinkalívanec
pandekage
ohukainenpannkakapannukakkuräiskälelätty
palačinka
palacsinta
pönnukaka
パンケーキ
팬케이크
lievanecpalacinka
palačinka
pannkaka
ขนมแพนเค้ก
bánh kếp
pancake
[ˈpænkeɪk]Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
pancake
vi (aeroplane) → eine Bauchlandung machen
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Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
pan1
(pӕn) noun1. a metal pot usually with a long handle, used for cooking food. a frying-pan; a saucepan.
2. (American) a tin for baking or cooking food inside an oven. a cake pan.
ˈpancake noun a thin cake usually made of milk, flour and eggs and fried in a pan etc.
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pancake
→ فَطِيرَةٌ مُحْلَاةٌ palačinka pandekage Pfannkuchen τηγανίτα panqueque, tortita ohukainen crêpe palačinka frittella パンケーキ 팬케이크 pannenkoek pannekake naleśnik panqueca блин pannkaka ขนมแพนเค้ก krep bánh kếp 薄烤饼Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009