bake
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /beɪk/
bake (bakes, present participle baking; past baked, past participle baked)
- (ditransitive or intransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven.
- I baked a delicious cherry pie.
- She's been baking all day to prepare for the dinner.
- (intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
- The cake baked at 350°F.
- (intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.
- The clay baked in the sun.
- (transitive) To dry by heat.
- They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be hot.
- It is baking in the greenhouse.
- I'm baking after that workout in the gym.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cause to be hot.
- (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (transitive, obsolete) To harden by cold.
- 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene ii]:
- The earth […] is baked with frost.
- They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone.
- (computer graphics, transitive) To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
- See also Thesaurus:cook
- French: cuire (au four)
- German: backen
- Italian: cuocere (al forno), infornare
- Portuguese: assar
- Russian: печь
- Spanish: hornear, enhornar
bake (plural bakes)
- The act of cooking food by baking.
- (especially, UK, Australia, NZ) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
- 2009, Dictionary of Food: International Food and Cooking Terms from A to Z ISBN 1408102188:
- A fish bake made with cod chunks, sliced parboiled potatoes, […]
- 2009, Rosalind Peters, Kate Pankhurst, Clive Boursnell, Midnight Feast Magic: Sleepover Fun and Food
- If you happen to have small, heat-proof glass or ceramic pots in your kitchen (known as ramekins) then you can make this very easy pasta bake in fun-size, individual portions.
- 2009, Dictionary of Food: International Food and Cooking Terms from A to Z ISBN 1408102188:
- (US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
- 1904, Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology:
- The central episode is the temporary burial of the novitiate; a shallow pit is excavated, and in this a fire is made, as for a fish bake; […]
- 1939, The American Photo-engraver, volume 31, page 289:
- I am about to launch a scheme for our local to invest a few dollars in a spot where the boys will know where to find company and pass a few hours or a week-end out in the fresh air and partake of shrimp bakes or fish fries and so forget the on-creeping years.
- 2006, Jeffery P. Sandman, Peter R. Sandman, Soaring and Gliding: The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Area:
- […] also featured a fish bake, a dance, and a beach party[.]
- 1904, Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology:
- (Barbadian, 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).
- Any item that is baked.
- 2016, Annie Rigg, Great British Bake Off: Children's Party Cakes & Bakes:
- Baking parchment should not be confused with greaseproof paper — the former has a non-stick coating and will ensure that your bakes lift out of the tin or off the baking sheets easily, the latter will have the opposite effect!
- 2016, Annie Rigg, Great British Bake Off: Children's Party Cakes & Bakes:
- Russian: выпека́ние
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