Meaning

4 senses
  1. (intransitive)To make a pancake landing.

  2. To collapse one floor after another.

  3. (transitive)To flatten violently.

  4. (intransitive)To lie out flat, like a pancake; sploot.

Examples

204 sentences
  1. Tom made pancakes for all of us.

    Том приготував млинці для всіх нас. — lingvokrolik

    deTom machte für uns alle Pfannkuchen. — wolfgangth

  2. We made pancakes for breakfast.

    Ми зробили млинці на сніданок. — zinova

    ruНа завтрак мы сделали блины. — las

    deWir haben Pfannkuchen zum Frühstück gemacht. — MUIRIEL

  3. I made pancakes for breakfast.

    Я зробила на сніданок млинці. — deniko

  4. Tom made pancakes for breakfast.

    Том зробив на сніданок млинці. — deniko

  5. I made pancakes.

    Я зробив млинці. — deniko

    ruЯ испёк блины. — marafon

Origin

Inherited from Middle English pancake, panne cake, pankake, ponkake. By surface analysis,

Inherited from Middle English pancake, panne cake, pankake, ponkake. By surface analysis, pan + cake.

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Forms

pancakes, pancaking, pancaked, pancaked
Base formpancake · to pancake
3rd person singularpancakes
Present participlepancaking
Past simplepancaked
Past participlepancaked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypancake
he, she, itpancakes

Past simpleLesson

all personspancaked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave pancaked
he, she, ithas pancaked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill pancake

Word family

3 related words

Collocations

5 patterns
  • made pancakes for
  • made pancakes
  • pancakes for breakfast
  • ate pancakes
  • some pancakes

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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