bake
to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.
to harden by heat: to bake pottery in a kiln.
to dry by, or subject to heat: The sun baked the land.
to bake bread, a casserole, etc.
to become baked: The cake will bake in about half an hour.
to be subjected to heat: The lizard baked on the hot rocks.
a social occasion at which the chief food is baked.
Scot. cracker (def. 1).
bake in / into
Computers. to incorporate (a feature) as part of a system or piece of software or hardware while it is still in development: The location-tracking service is baked in the new app.Security features come baked into the operating system.
to include as an inseparable or permanent part: Baked into the price of the product is the cost of advertising.
Origin of bake
1Other words from bake
- outbake, verb (used with object), out·baked, out·bak·ing.
- o·ver·bake, verb, o·ver·baked, o·ver·bak·ing.
- pre·bake, verb, pre·baked, pre·bak·ing.
- re·bake, verb (used with object), re·baked, re·bak·ing.
- un·baked, adjective
- un·der·bake, verb (used with object), un·der·baked, un·der·bak·ing.
- well-baked, adjective
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How to use bake in a sentence
Full of love, Mrs. Sweet sings, bakes, gardens and knits for her family.
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She is the neighbor that prays for you, bakes for you, inquires about each family member, and always has a ready smile.
Cotton bakes all of his confections, and creates props in his studio to paint.
The dough will rise up along the edge of the pan as it bakes.
She always bakes pies for the suppers and things at home, church suppers, I mean.
Betty Lee, Freshman | David Goodger (goodger@python.org)In dry seasons, where the soil covering is not deep, the land bakes and cracks, and in this condition it can not be cultivated.
When the water ceases, the sun quickly bakes a crust of silt and dries the stones of the river-beds gray-brown.
Riviera Towns | Herbert Adams GibbonsShe knows what use survives the beauty in the peasant hand that spins and bakes.
The Browning Cyclopdia | Edward BerdoeYes, I think I had better take her this loaf if it bakes properly.
Those Dale Girls | Frank Weston Carruth
British Dictionary definitions for bake
/ (beɪk) /
(tr) to cook by dry heat in or as if in an oven
(intr) to cook bread, pastry, etc, in an oven
to make or become hardened by heat
(intr) informal to be extremely hot, as in the heat of the sun
US a party at which the main dish is baked
a batch of things baked at one time
Scot a kind of biscuit
Caribbean a small flat fried cake
Origin of bake
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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