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pan·cake  (pnkk)

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. pan·caked, pan·cak·ing, pan·cakes

v.tr.

To cause (an aircraft) to make a pancake landing.

v.intr.

To make a pancake landing.

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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. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Hairdressing & Grooming) a stick or flat cake of compressed make-up

4. (Engineering / Aeronautics) Also called pancake landing an aircraft landing made by levelling out a few feet from the ground and then dropping onto it

vb

(Engineering / Aeronautics) to cause (an aircraft) to make a pancake landing or (of an aircraft) to make a pancake landing

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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."

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

pancake - a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle battercake, flannel cake, flannel-cake, flapcake, flapjack, hot cake, hotcake, griddlecake cake - 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 blintz, blintze - (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked crape, French pancake, crepe - small very thin pancake 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.

Translations

pancake [ˈpænkeɪk]

A. N → tortita f, panqueque m (LAm)
see also flat ¹

B. CPD Pancake Day N (Brit) → martes m inv de carnaval
pancake landing N (Aer) → aterrizaje m de panza
pancake roll N (Brit) → rollito m de primavera

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pancake [ˈpænkeɪk] n → crêpe f
Pancake Day Pancake Tuesday n (British) → mardi m gras

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pancake

n → Pfannkuchen m; pancake landing → Bauchlandung f; pancake roll → ˜ Frühlingsrolle f

vi (aeroplane) → eine Bauchlandung machen

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pancake [ˈpænˌkeɪk] n → frittella, crêpe f inv
as flat as a pancake (fig) → piatto/a come una tavola

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pancake → فطيرة محلاة 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