bake

IPA: bˈeɪk

The act of cooking food by baking.
(especially UK, Australia, New Zealand) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
Any food item that is baked.
(US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
(Barbados, 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).

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

Examples of "bake" in Sentences

I (gasp) think the Tom Douglas salmon bake is a good idea.
I think one of the reasons I don't bake is because I too love to "play with my ingredients."
"since it's your duty to ostracize and bake, _ostracize_ and _bake_, and be done with your ridiculous fancies."
That would be awesome, I'm a newbie bread maker and would love to bake from a starter! jhanderson3272@gmail.com
Just make sure you don't open the oven door until it's at least 30 minutes into the bake time - the low, long bake is key to the moisture.
As we had no oven, mother had what we called a bake kettle; this was a flat, low kettle, with a cast cover, the rim of which turned up an inch or two, to hold coals.
The bake is something a bit like baked rice pudding, made with heart-healthy oatmeal that is baked in a casserole dish with cottage cheese, milk, eggs, sugar and spices.
KORMAN: Well, we had a team, a great team of photo editors from leading newspapers and magazines around the country, and on a daily basis, they would whittle it down, and at night, we would have what we call a bake off where the whole production team got together and voted on what images would make it to the next day.