pancake

1. (countable and uncountable) A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:countableuncountable

2. (countable and uncountable) A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:Examples: "Mrs. America is holding a plate of pancakes in one hand and a fork with a slice of pancake in the other."countableuncountable

3. (uncountable, theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.Examples: "And us, me wearing pancake with my eyebrows recently plucked archly, done by Little Amber, the beauty-school student quean, in Bryant Park."uncountable

4. (countable, juggling) A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.Examples: "have been working on pancake throws with rings for the past few months and I have been trying to make the throws perfectly spun and as consistent as possible."countable

5. (countable) Anything very thin and flat.Examples: "pancake lens"; "Most of the electrons would pass through the hadron pancake with no interaction, but a few would collide […]"countable

6. (uncountable) Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.Examples: "&hellip in the poorer grades the heel is made of scrap leather and leather board or pulp, finished with a solid leather top lift. The composite material, called pancake, is made by an operative, usually a girl, called a pancake-maker; it is used sometimes for soles as well as heels."uncountable