pancake

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

Noun

1. a thin flat circle of fried batter

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

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

Translations

pancake [ˈpænkeɪk] n → crepe f; panqueque m (LAM)

pancake [ˈpænkeɪk] n → crêpe f

pancake [ˈpænkeɪk] n → Pfannkuchen m

pancake [ˈpænkeɪk] n → frittella