bake
Americanverb (used with object)
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to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.
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to harden by heat.
to bake pottery in a kiln.
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to dry by, or subject to heat.
The sun baked the land.
verb (used without object)
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to bake bread, a casserole, etc.
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to become baked.
The cake will bake in about half an hour.
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to be subjected to heat.
The lizard baked on the hot rocks.
noun
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a social occasion at which the chief food is baked.
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Scot. cracker.
verb phrase
verb
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(tr) to cook by dry heat in or as if in an oven
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(intr) to cook bread, pastry, etc, in an oven
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to make or become hardened by heat
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informal (intr) to be extremely hot, as in the heat of the sun
noun
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a party at which the main dish is baked
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a batch of things baked at one time
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a kind of biscuit
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a small flat fried cake
Other Word Forms
- outbake verb (used with object)
- overbake verb
- prebake verb
- rebake verb (used with object)
- unbaked adjective
- underbake verb (used with object)
- well-baked adjective
Etymology
Origin of bake
First recorded before 1000; Middle English baken, Old English bacan; cognate with Old High German bahhan, Old Norse baka; akin to Dutch bakken, German backen, Greek phṓgein “to roast”; from Proto-Indo-European extended root bhēg-, bhōg- “to warm, roast”
Example Sentences
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They arrived to cheers from crowds waving Welsh flags and holding bunches of daffodils, before sipping hot drinks and chatting to people making signs, baking cakes and making traditional stew in preparation for the festivities.
From BBC
Traders are “baking in a fat $10 risk premium,” or the extra price per barrel of oil beyond “fair value” based on supply and demand dynamics.
From MarketWatch
Traders are “baking in a fat $10 risk premium,” or the extra price per barrel of oil beyond “fair value” based on supply and demand dynamics.
From MarketWatch
Goldman Sachs made these observations in a note published Thursday in which they calculate the risk premium baked into the current oil price is around $5-6.
From MarketWatch
Goldman Sachs made these observations in a note published Thursday in which they calculate the risk premium baked into the current oil price is around $5-6.
From MarketWatch
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