Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense bakes, present participle baking, past tense, past participle baked
1. verb
If you bake, you spend some time preparing and mixing together ingredients to make bread, cakes, pies, or other food which is cooked in the oven.
I love to bake. [VERB]
bakinguncountable noun [oft theNOUN]
On a Thursday she used to do all the baking.
2. verb
When a cake or bread bakes or when you bake it, it cooks in the oven without any extra liquid or fat.
Bake the cake for 35 to 50 minutes. [VERB noun]
The batter rises as it bakes. [VERB]
...freshly baked bread. [VERB-ed]
cook
3. verb
If places or people become extremely hot because the sun is shining very strongly, you can say that they bake.
If you closed the windows, you baked. [VERB]
Britain bakes in a Mediterranean heatwave. [VERB]
Synonyms: get too hot, roast, warm up, overheat More Synonyms of bake
4. countable noun [usually noun NOUN]
A vegetable or fish bake is a dish that is made by chopping up and mixing together a number of ingredients and cooking them in the oven so thatthey form a fairly dry solid mass.
[British]
...an aubergine bake.
5. See also baking
More Synonyms of bake
bake in British English
(beɪk)
verb
1. (transitive)
to cook by dry heat in or as if in an oven
2. (intransitive)
to cook bread, pastry, etc, in an oven
3.
to make or become hardened by heat
4. (intransitive) informal
to be extremely hot, as in the heat of the sun
noun
5. US
a party at which the main dish is baked
6.
a batch of things baked at one time
7. Scottish
a kind of biscuit
8. Caribbean
a small flat fried cake
Word origin
Old English bacan; related to Old Norse baka, Old High German bahhan to bake, Greek phōgein to parch, roast
bake in American English
(beɪk)
verb transitiveWord forms: baked or ˈbaking
1.
to cook (food) by dry heat, esp. in an oven
2.
to make dry and hard by heat; fire (bricks, earthenware, etc.)
3.
to expose (oneself) to the rays of the sun, a lamp, etc.
4. Obsolete
to harden or cake
verb intransitive
5.
to bake bread, pastry, etc.
6.
to become baked
7.
to become dry and hard in the sun
said of soil
noun
8.
the act of baking
9.
a product of baking
10. US
a social affair at which a certain kind of food, often baked, is served
11. Scottish
a cracker
Word origin
ME baken < OE bacan < IE *bhog- < base *bhe-, to warm, bake > bath1, Gr phōgein, to roast