Cake vs Dentistry - What's the difference?
cake | dentistry |
A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
A block of any of various dense materials.
* Dryden
(slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake .
(slang) Money.
Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
To form into a cake, or mass.
(uncountable) The field of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis and treatment of conditions of the teeth and oral cavity.
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* 1997 , P.B. Waite, The Lives of Dalhousie University'', volume II: 1925-198 , page 24:
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(uncountable) Operations]] performed on teeth and adjoining areas such as drilling, filling [[cavity, cavities and placing crowns and bridges.
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* 2011 , Gregory J. Tarantola, Clinical Cases in Restorative and Reconstructive Dentistry (ISBN 0470961783):
(countable) A dental surgery, an operation on the teeth.
* 1908 , in the report of the Second International Congress on School Hygiene , volume 2, page 516:
* 2004 , Gene Witiak, True Confessions of a Veterinarian: An Unconditional Love Story , page 83
(countable) A place where dental operations are performed.
* 1867 , in Macmillan's Magazine , volume 16, page 464
* 1918 , Edward Bernard Benjamin, The larger liberalism , page 172:
* 2003 , Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: First Review (ISBN 1452728488):
As nouns the difference between cake and dentistry
is that cake is a rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing while dentistry is the field of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions of the teeth and oral cavity.As a verb cake
is coat (something) with a crust of solid material.cake
Etymology 1
From (etyl) cake, from (etyl) , (l), and (l).Noun
- an oatmeal cake
- a johnnycake
- buckwheat cakes
- a cake of soap
- a cake of sand
- Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood.
Usage notes
* In British usage, a (term) is distinct from a (term); the former is generally hard but becomes soft when stale, whereas the latter is generally soft but becomes hard when stale.Derived terms
* a piece of cake * ague-cake * angel cake * angel food cake * ash-cake * ashcake * baked in the cake * Banbury cake * barm cake * Battenburg cake * batter-cake * battercake * beefcake * birthday cake * bridecake * bundt cake * cake bar * cake-bread * cake-eater * cake-fumbler * cakehole * cake-house * cakelet * cake-meal * cake mix * cake saffron * cake slice * cake tin * cake-urchin * cakes and ale * cakes and cheese * cakewalk * cakewalker * caking * caky * carcake * carrot cake * cattle-cake * cheesecake * cherry cake * chocolate cake * chocolate fudge cake * chocolate sponge cake * Christmas cake * coffee cake * coffeecake * corn-cake * cotton-cake * cream cake * cupcake * devil's food cake * Dundee cake * Eccles cake * every cake has its fellow * every cake has its make * every cake has its mate * fairy cake * fish cake * fishcake * flannel cake * friedcake * fruitcake * fudge cake * go like hot cakes * griddle-cake * have one's cake and eat it too * haver-cake * heart-cake * hoecake * Johnny cake * johnny cake * journey-cake * king cake * knead-cake * Land of Cakes * lardy cake * layer cake * linseed cake * Madeira cake * marble cake * nutcake * oatcake * oilcake * one's cake is dough * Pan-Cake * pancake * parliament-cake * pat-a-cake * patty-cake * plum-cake * pomfret-cake * Pontefract cake * pound cake * queencake * rape-cake * rice cake * rock cake * rose-cake * rout-cake * saffron cake * salt-cake * seed-cake * seedcake * sell like hot cakes * Shawnee cake * sheet cake * shortcake * simnel cake * singing cake * soul-cake * spice-cake * sponge cake * take the cake * teacake * tharf-cake * the cake is a lie * the icing on the cake * the national cake * tipsy cake * Twelfth-cake * Twelfth-night cake * upside-down cake * Victorian sponge cake * wedding cake * yellowcakeSynonyms
* (dessert) * (block) block * (easy task) see piece of cakeDescendants
* Dutch: (l), (l) (also (l), older also (l), (l)) * Faroese: (l) * German: (l) ** Serbo-Croatian: * Icelandic: (l) * Nauruan: (l) * Japanese: * Norwegian: (l) * Swedish: (l)See also
(attention) * biscuit * * brownie * bun * cruller * crumpet * dessert * donut * doughnut * * flapjack * frangipane * * gugelhupf * jumbal * koeksister * kruller * kuchen * kugelhopf * kugelhupf * ladyfinger * lamington * Linzertorte * madeleine * muffin * parkin * pastry * patisserie * petit four * pie * pikelet * pudding * rum baba * Sally Lunn * scone * sponge * Swiss roll * tart * torte * Victoria sponge * yumyumVerb
- His shoes are caked with mud.
Synonyms
* (coat with a crust of material) crust, encrustEtymology 2
Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----dentistry
English
Noun
(en-noun)- He was born near Middleton in 1853, graduated from Mount Allison, and took his dentistry degree at Philadelphia in 1878.
- This patient is an out-of-town physician who had to wait until retirement to complete his dentistry'. He had holding pattern type ' dentistry done to get him by.
- Dr. Landsberg, of Posen, states that when children's teeth are put in order by means of school dentistries , anaemia, one of the most frequent school diseases, will be greatly diminished.
- I speak now only of your pet's bad breath. Dentistries will specifically improve the oral health of the pet as well as its overall health in the long term.
- They are very fond of sweet things; and the ladies especially crowd the “candystores,” which are not less numerous than the dentistries —with which business they are intimately connected.
- The author could dilate at great length on the possibilities in plant groceries, restaurants, and dentistries .
- As a first step, the law with be amended to prepare for the privatization of pharmacies and dentistries by end-2003.