Dictionary.com
definitions
  • synonyms

bake

[beyk]
See more synonyms for bake on Thesaurus.com
verb (used with object), baked, bak·ing.
  1. to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.
  2. to harden by heat: to bake pottery in a kiln.
  3. to dry by, or subject to heat: The sun baked the land.
Show More
verb (used without object), baked, bak·ing.
  1. to bake bread, a casserole, etc.
  2. to become baked: The cake will bake in about half an hour.
  3. to be subjected to heat: The lizard baked on the hot rocks.
Show More
noun
  1. a social occasion at which the chief food is baked.
  2. Scot. cracker(def 1).
Show More
Verb Phrases
  1. bake in/into,
    1. 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.
    2. to include as an inseparable or permanent part: Baked into the price of the product is the cost of advertising.
Show More

Origin of bake

before 1000; Middle English baken, Old English bacan, past participle bōc baked; cognate with Old High German bahhan, past buoh, Old Norse baka; akin to Dutch bakken, German backen, Greek phṓgein to roast; < IE alternating base *bheHog-, bhəg-
Related formsout·bake, 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, adjectiveun·der·bake, verb (used with object), un·der·baked, un·der·bak·ing.well-baked, adjective
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018

Examples from the Web for baking

Contemporary Examples

Historical Examples

British Dictionary definitions for baking

baking

noun
    1. the process of cooking bread, cakes, etc
    2. (as modifier)a baking dish
  2. the bread, cakes, etc, cooked at one time
Show More
adjective
  1. (esp of weather) very hot and dry
Show More

bake

verb
  1. (tr) to cook by dry heat in or as if in an oven
  2. (intr) to cook bread, pastry, etc, in an oven
  3. to make or become hardened by heat
  4. (intr) informal to be extremely hot, as in the heat of the sun
Show More
noun
  1. US a party at which the main dish is baked
  2. a batch of things baked at one time
  3. Scot a kind of biscuit
  4. Caribbean a small flat fried cake
Show More

Word Origin

Old English bacan; related to Old Norse baka, Old High German bahhan to bake, Greek phōgein to parch, roast
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Word Origin and History for baking

bake

v.

Old English bacan "to bake," from Proto-Germanic *bakanan (cf. Old Norse baka, Middle Dutch backen, Old High German bahhan, German backen), from PIE *bheg- "to warm, roast, bake" (cf. Greek phogein "to roast"), from root *bhe- "to warm" (see bath). Related: Baked (Middle English had baken); baking. Baked beans attested by 1803.

Show More

bake

n.

"social gathering at which baked food is served," 1846, American English, from bake (v.).

Show More
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper