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Bake

//beɪk// noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of cooking food by baking.

    "Taking one of her cakes or a tray of biscuits from the oven always gives her satisfaction and a moment of pride; that is, of course, unless there happens to be some little element that doesn't please her with the bake."

  2. 2
    Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole. Australia, New-Zealand, UK, especially

    "A fish bake made with cod chunks, sliced parboiled potatoes, […]"

  3. 3
    Any food item that is baked, such as a pastry.

    "Baking parchment should not be confused with greaseproof paper — the former has a non-stick coating and will ensure that your bakes lift out of the tin or off the baking sheets easily, the latter will have the opposite effect!"

  4. 4
    A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served. US

    "The central episode is the temporary burial of the novitiate; a shallow pit is excavated, and in this a fire is made, as for a fish bake; […]"

  5. 5
    A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten mainly in Barbados, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or sometimes roasted). Barbados, UK, US, sometimes

    "For quotations using this term, see Citations:bake."

Verb
  1. 1
    To cook (something) in an oven (for someone). ditransitive, intransitive, transitive

    "I baked a delicious cherry pie."

  2. 2
    cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven wordnet
  3. 3
    To be cooked in an oven. intransitive

    "The cake baked at 350°F."

  4. 4
    heat by a natural force wordnet
  5. 5
    To be warmed to drying and hardening. intransitive

    "The clay baked in the sun."

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  1. 6
    prepare with dry heat in an oven wordnet
  2. 7
    To dry by heat. transitive

    "They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture."

  3. 8
    be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun wordnet
  4. 9
    To be hot. figuratively, intransitive

    "It is baking in the greenhouse."

  5. 10
    To cause to be hot. figuratively, transitive

    "My dad told me about his days in the Navy: He'd agreed to be a guinea pig in exchange for a shorter enlistment. […] They baked him in the sun."

  6. 11
    To smoke marijuana. intransitive, slang
  7. 12
    To harden by cold. obsolete, transitive

    "The earth […] is baked with frost."

  8. 13
    To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance. transitive
  9. 14
    To incorporate into something greater. figuratively

    "Disagreements between pilots' unions are baked into the merger cake."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- (“to roast, bake”). Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Norwegian Bokmål bake (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “roast”, verb).

Etymology 2

From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- (“to roast, bake”). Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Norwegian Bokmål bake (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “roast”, verb).

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