BAKE

bake

(verb) cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven; “bake the potatoes”

broil, bake

(verb) heat by a natural force; “The sun broils the valley in the summer”

bake

(verb) prepare with dry heat in an oven; “bake a cake”

bake, broil

(verb) be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun; “The town was broiling in the sun”; “the tourists were baking in the heat”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

bake (third-person singular simple present bakes, present participle baking, simple past (dialectal) book or baked, past participle (dialectal) baken or baked)

(ditransitive or intransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven.

(intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.

(intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.

(transitive) To dry by heat.

(intransitive, figuratively) To be hot.

(transitive, figuratively) To cause to be hot.

(intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.

(transitive, obsolete) To harden by cold.

(computer graphics, transitive) To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.

(figurative, with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.

Usage notes

In the dialects of northern England, the simple past book and past participle baken are sometimes encountered.

Synonyms

• See also cook

Noun

bake (plural bakes)

The act of cooking food by baking.

(especially, UK, Australia, NZ) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.

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

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

Any item that is baked.

Anagrams

• Baek, beak, beka

Source: Wiktionary

Bake, v. t. [imp.& p. p. Baked; p. pr. & vb. n. Baking.] Etym: [AS. bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG. bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baca, Dan. bage, Gr.

1. To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.

Note: Baking is the term usually applied to that method of cooking which exhausts the moisture in food more than roasting or broiling; but the distinction of meaning between roasting and baking is not always observed.

2. To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.

3. To harden by cold. The earth . . . is baked with frost. Shak. They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone. Spenser.

Bake, v. i.

1. To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes. Shak.

2. To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.

Bake, n.

Definition: The process, or result, of baking.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition