Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thin cake made of batter that is poured onto a hot greased surface and cooked on both sides until brown.
- intransitive verb To cause (an aircraft) to make a pancake landing.
- intransitive verb To make a pancake landing.
- intransitive verb To fall flat to the ground with great force, especially to collapse in such a way that higher floors or structures fall directly on the ones beneath.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
- noun An imitation leather made of scarps agglutinated by cement or glue, and pressed into a flat sheet. It is used for in-soles, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A thin
batter cake fried in a pan or on agriddle inoil orbutter . - noun theater A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
- noun juggling A type of
throw , usually with a ring where theprop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop. - verb To make a
pancake landing - verb construction, demolition To collapse one floor after another.
- verb To
flatten violently.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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And many of the dogs were what we call pancake dogs.
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And many of the dogs were what we call pancake dogs.
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And many of the dogs were what we call pancake dogs.
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And many of the dogs were what we call pancake dogs.
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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.
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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.
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Here, waves tossed the ice around — grinding it into round plates called pancake ice or pushing thin sheets on top of one another to create an interlocking pattern, a phenomenon known as finger rafting.
Arctic Ice Feedback Loops Will Guide the Climate’s Future Shannon Hall 2020
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Wave action can break up the nilas into small mats 1-2 m across, which then bump into each other and form rounded shapes with raised edges, called pancake ice (Figure 14.1.2 C). If temperatures remain cold the pancake ice freezes together into solid ice floes, a hard surface covering the ocean (Figure 14.1.2 D). Ice floes then freeze together into ice fields.
14.1 Types of Ice 2025
treeseed commented on the word pancake
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.
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February 18, 2008
missanthropist commented on the word pancake
'Uncle Tom', or humble negro slang, used by negroes
Dictionary of American Slang, 1969
July 16, 2008