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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. 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.
  2. v. To cause (an aircraft) to make a pancake landing.
  3. v. To make a pancake landing.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. 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.
  2. 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

  1. n. A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter.
  2. n. theater A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
  3. n. juggling A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
  4. v. To make a pancake landing
  5. v. construction, demolition To collapse one floor after another.
  6. v. To flatten violently.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle

Etymologies

  1. Middle English 1430, pan +‎ cake. The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “And many of the dogs were what we call pancake dogs.”

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  • “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.”

    CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2010

  • “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.”

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  • “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.”

    Consumer Reports: How to save money on cameras this season

  • “CHIEF KELVIN COCHRAN, ATLANTA FIRE RESCUE: It actually collapsed in what we refer to as a pancake fashion.”

    CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2008

  • “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.”

    CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2008

  • “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.”

    CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2008

  • “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.”

    Consumer Reports Electronics Blog

  • “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.”

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synonyms (9)

Words with the same meaning

  1. griddlecake
  1. flapjack
  1. froise
  1. fraise
  1. griddle cake
  1. crêpe
  1. hotcake
  1. or
  1. crepe

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. cake

hyponyms (14)

Words that are more specific

  1. bliny
  2. pfannkuchen
  1. german pancake
  2. blintze
  1. latke
  2. blintz
  1. crêpe
  2. tortilla
  1. crape
  2. blini
  1. buttermilk pancake
  2. french pancake
  1. buckwheat cake
  2. potato pancake

same context (38)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. muffin
  2. waffle
  3. bacon
  4. porridge
  5. biscuit
  6. toast
  7. pastry
  1. sausage
  2. fritter
  3. pudding
  4. cracker
  5. oatmeal
  6. salad
  7. omelet
  1. croissant
  2. hominy
  3. bean
  4. macaroni
  5. loaf
  6. cornbread
  7. trainingto
  1. 10-mile
  2. twenty-five-mile
  3. sauntering
  4. twice-daily
  5. box-bordered
  6. 10-kilometer
  7. before-breakfast
  1. six-minute
  2. bases-loaded
  3. bent-kneed
  4. 14-hour
  5. hundred-metre
  6. eight-mile
  7. one-out
  1. yards'
  2. neatly-kept
  3. nymphlike

reverse dictionary (39)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. crêpe
  2. blintz
  3. blini
  4. tortilla
  5. latke
  6. french pancake
  7. blintze
  1. bliny
  2. buckwheat cake
  3. buttermilk pancake
  4. crape
  5. flapjack
  6. griddlecake
  7. hotcake
  1. flannel cake
  2. battercake
  3. flannelcake
  4. ice-pan
  5. blin
  6. Moise
  7. pan-pudding
  1. fraise
  2. froise
  3. crepe
  4. slapjack
  5. mu shu
  6. pancake
  7. cake
  1. waffle
  2. pancake-like
  3. spring roll
  4. egg roll
  5. johnnycake
  6. journey cake
  7. chapati
  1. chapatti
  2. round robin
  3. shrove-cake
  4. leatherjacket

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