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- Dictionarybake/beɪk/
verb
- 1. cook (food) by dry heat without direct exposure to a flame, typically in an oven: "they bake their own bread and cakes" Similar
- 2. (of the sun or other agency) subject (something) to dry heat, especially so as to harden it: "the soil in the desert is baked dry by the fierce heat of the sun" Similar
noun
- 1. a dish consisting of a mixture of ingredients cooked in an oven: "a vegetable bake"
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BAKE definition: 1. to cook inside an oven, without using added liquid or fat: 2. to make something such as earth…. Learn more.
1. : to prepare food by baking it. a cook who enjoys baking. 2. : to become baked. a loaf of bread baking in the oven. 3. : to be or become extremely hot. sidewalks baking in the sun.
Bake definition: to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.. See examples of BAKE used in a sentence.
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.
To bake something is to cook it in a hot oven. When you bake a batch of blueberry muffins, your whole house smells delicious. Whether you bake some cookies for dessert, a casserole to take to a potluck supper, or bake a clay pot in a kiln, you cook with a relatively slow, dry heat.
bake. ( beɪk) vb. 1. (Cookery) ( tr) to cook by dry heat in or as if in an oven. 2. (Cookery) ( intr) to cook bread, pastry, etc, in an oven. 3. (Ceramics) to make or become hardened by heat. 4. ( intr) informal to be extremely hot, as in the heat of the sun. n.
/beɪk/ Verb Forms. [transitive, intransitive] to cook food in an oven without extra fat or liquid; to be cooked in this way. bake (something) to bake bread/biscuits/cookies. baked potatoes/apples. the delicious smell of baking bread. The bread is baking in the oven. I've been baking all morning.
BAKE definition: to cook something such as bread or a cake with dry heat in an oven: . Learn more.
To cook (food) by dry heat, esp. in an oven. Webster's New World. To bake bread, pastry, etc. Webster's New World. To harden or dry (something) by subjecting to heat in or as if in an oven. Bake bricks. American Heritage. To make dry and hard by heat; fire (bricks, earthenware, etc.) Webster's New World.
Definition of bake noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
