bake
IPA: bˈeɪk
noun
- 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).
verb
- (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.
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Examples of "bake" in Sentences
- The man baked the cake.
- The lassie liked to bake cakes.
- He baked cake and decorated with prunes.
- I baked a cake for my friend's birthday.
- The women baked cakes and sold raffle tickets.
- The bakers in the towns baked their bread for the day.
- In essence, it is a chiffon cake baked in a paper cup.
- He could've baked the most delicious cake in the world.
- He grew the wheat which was turned into the flour needed to bake the bread.
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