Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- 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, griddlecake, hotcake; also called regionally battercake.
- v. To cause (an aircraft) to make a pancake landing.
- v. To make a pancake landing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A thin cake of batter fried or baked in a pan or griddle; a flapjack; a griddle-cake; also, a cake made of dough or batter and fried in fat.
- n. An imitation leather made of scarps agglutinated by cement or glue, and pressed into a flat sheet. It is used for in-soles, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter.
- n. A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
- v. To make a pancake landing
- v. To collapse one floor after another.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
Examples
“And many of the dogs were what we call pancake dogs.”
“And how we're finding these is, we're seeing that most of the collapses that have occurred here are what we call pancake-style collapse.”
“Olympus has a limited edition "Komachi Kit" available for the holiday season, which includes an E-420 SLR camera body ($440 alone) and a 25mm f/2.8 Zuiko Digital lens, which they call a pancake lens due to its very small size.”
“Olympus has a limited edition "Komachi Kit" available for the holiday season, which includes an E-420 SLR camera body $440 alone and a 25mm f/2.8 Zuiko Digital lens, which they call a pancake lens due to its very small size.”
“CHIEF KELVIN COCHRAN, ATLANTA FIRE RESCUE: It actually collapsed in what we refer to as a pancake fashion.”
“UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It actually collapsed in what we refer to as a pancake fashion and we have not ascertained at this point whether all the occupants were evacuated.”
“CHIEF KELVIN COCHRAN, ATLANTA FIRE RESCUE: It actually collapsed in what we refer to as a pancake fashion, and we have not ascertained at this point whether all of the occupants were evacuated.”
“Komachi Kit" available for the holiday season, which includes an E-420 SLR camera body ($440 alone) and a 25mm f / 2.8 Zuiko Digital lens, which they call a pancake lens due to its very small size.”
“One Sunday a month, the couple cooked holiday-themed pancakes for the entire building (this would be pumpkin pancake season).”
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“Asawari added that she had told her that pancake is dosa.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pancake’.
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Alle Menschen werden Brüder
It's only a question of time, when.
Derogatory terms for anybody different.zog lover, zipperhead, zip, yid, yellow, yankee, yank, wog, whitey, wigga, wop, whigger and 315 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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Hungarian Realia
Topical and traditional cultural assets from Hungary.
I have only included realia that already have an English spelling variant and DID NOT include Hungarian words that would be used ...embroidered felt ..., golden stick, anti-gypsyism, limekiln, civic party, graft, gratitude money, farmstead, inn, gypsy raider, lever well, herdsman’s whip and 185 more...
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My Strange Kitchen
It seems that whenever I look away, new gadgets and devices and tools and dishes and utensils and ingredients are multiplying in my kitchen drawers and my cabinets.
tectonic plates, spoonbill, fork in the road, bowl haircut, whisk away, greasy spoon, melting pot, pan flute, platelets, spooning, pitchfork, jackknife and 100 more...
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Curling, The Roaring Game
Terms and phrases associated with the game and sport of curling.
hack, tee, hogscore, hatch, trigger, stone, end, sweeper, broom, curling sheet, hog line, centre line and 282 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Let them eat cake.
cake, cakes, Cake, bundt cake, pancake, cheesecake, yellowcake uranium, urinal cake, pound cake, birthday cake, wedding cake, sponge cake and 61 more...
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When I'm in Holland I eat the pannenkoeken
Pancakes, pancakes, pancakes!
pancake, flapjack, waffle, griddle cake, hotcake, slapjack, johnnycake, bannock, arepa, blini, crepe, dosa and 15 more...
missanthropist 'Uncle Tom', or humble negro slang, used by negroes
Dictionary of American Slang, 1969 Jul 16, 2008
treeseed Pancake is a form of makeup developed for use in filming. In early Technicolor films, for example, to prevent the actors' faces from looking green.
_Wikipedia Feb 17, 2008