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Birthday Cake

Definition: Birthday Cake

Birthday Cake

Noun

1. Decorated cake served at a birthday party.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Modern Usage: Birthday Cake

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Birthday Cake (1913)

My Birthday Cake (1991)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Birthday Cake

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Books

  • A Birthday Cake for Little Bear (reference)

  • Birthday Cake and I Scream (Katz, Fred E. Spinechillers Mysteries, 7.) (reference)

  • Can Mom Have a Piece of My Birthday Cake (reference)

  • Cheery Classroom Clips: Birthday Cake (Grades PreK-2) (reference)

  • Grandma's Whopper Birthday Cake (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Birthday Cake

Photos:
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Photo Album: Birthday Cake

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Army National Guard Command Sgt. Maj. John Leonard Jr. and Air National Guard Tech. Sgt. Christina Blithe slice the birthday cake with a sword on behalf of all enlisted Guardsmen during the National Guard's 364th birthday celebration in Arlington, Va., on.

Caption: Henry Ford Cutting His Birthday Cake on the Grounds of Glenmont During the 1930 Edison Scholarship Contest; West Orange, NJ; August, 1930; {13.200/57} (jpg).

Caption: Edison at Glenmont, Cutting a Birthday Cake on His 80th Birthday, Mina Edison at His Side; West Orange, NJ; February 11, 1927; {14.110/10} (jpg).

[Woman helping young girl in a paper hat slice a birthday cake at a party while other children look on] Esther Bubley.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Birthday Cake

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  birthday cake

3,294

  birthday cake man spider

39

  kid birthday cake

483

  birthday cake elmo

37

  birthday cake idea

342

  child birthday cake recipe

36

  child birthday cake

332

  kid birthday cake recipe

35

  birthday cake recipe

288

  birthday cake finding nemo

34

  birthday cake picture

272

  child birthday cake idea

34

  birthday cake design

217

  theme birthday cake

32

  birthday cake decorating

128

  birthday cake pan

31

  birthday cake decoration

88

  1st birthday cake

31

  dog birthday cake

64

  birthday cake fish

30

  barbie birthday cake

59

  dog birthday cake recipe

30

  birthday cake decorating idea

58

  birthday cake hello kitty

30

  adult birthday cake

55

  birthday cake pic

28

  birthday cake clipart

53

  birthday cake delivery

27

  birthday cake idea for kid

50

  birthday cake girl

26

  birthday cake clip art

48

  princess birthday cake

25

  first birthday cake

48

  baseball birthday cake

25

  birthday cake flower

43

  birthday cake train

24

  birthday cake photo

40

  birthday cake hulk

24

  birthday cake castle

39

  50th birthday cake

22
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Birthday Cake

Language Translations for "birthday cake"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

geburtstagskuchen. (various references)

   

Manx

  

berreen ruggyree. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

irthdaybay akecay

   

Portuguese

  

bolo de aniversário. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

торт ко дню рождения. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

torta de cumpleaños. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

födelsedagstårta. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Birthday Cake

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-d-e-h-i-k-r-t-y"

-2 letters: brachiated.

-3 letters: brachiate.

-4 letters: abdicate, acerbity, backdate, backyard, bacteria, bedchair, birthday, bitchery, caryatid, cathedra, daybreak, hardback, hardtack, radicate, theriaca, tracheid.

-5 letters: abreact, airdate, airhead, airthed, barytic, batched, batcher, bearcat, bedirty, bedtick, bidarka, birched, birthed, bitched, brachet, brachia, bracket, bracted, breadth, breathy, bricked, cabaret, carabid, carbide, cardiae, catbird, cathead, chaired, charade, charity, charked, charted, chirked.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Birthday Cake


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 69 72 74 68 64 61 79      43 61 6B 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101001 01110010 01110100 01101000 01100100 01100001 01111001 00100000 01000011 01100001 01101011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#105 &#114 &#116 &#104 &#100 &#97 &#121 &#32 &#67 &#97 &#107 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0069 0072 0074 0068 0064 0061 0079      0043 0061 006B 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3675848674706791237677771

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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