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Share This bake Audio Help / beɪk / Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation [ beyk ] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation verb, baked, bak·ing, noun –verb (used with object) 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.
–verb (used without object) 4. to bake bread, a casserole, etc.
5. to become baked: The cake will bake in about half an hour.
6. to be subjected to heat: The lizard baked on the hot rocks.
–noun 7. a social occasion at which the chief food is baked.
[Origin:
bef. 1000; ME
baken, OE
bacan, ptp.
bōc baked; c. OHG
bahhan, past
buoh, ON
baka; akin to D
bakken, G
backen, Gk
ph to roast; < IE alternating base
*bheHo g-, bhəg- ]
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baked , bak·ing , bakes
tr.
To cook (food) with dry heat, especially in an oven.
To harden or dry (something) by subjecting to heat in or as if in an oven: bake bricks.
intr.
To cook food with dry heat.
To become hardened or dry by or as if by having been subjected to the heat of an oven.
The act or process of baking.
An amount baked.
A social gathering at which food is cooked by baking and then served.
baken , from Old English bacan .]
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Share This baking adjective 1. as hot as if in an oven noun 1. making bread or cake or pastry etc. 2. cooking by dry heat in an oven
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Share This ˈbaking noun
the act or art of cooking bread, cakes
etc
Arabic: خَـبْـز Chinese (Simplified): 烤 Chinese (Traditional): 烤 Czech: pečení Danish: bagning Dutch: het bakken Estonian: küpsetamine Finnish: leipominen French: cuisson German: das Backen Greek: ψήσιμο Hungarian: sütés Icelandic: bakstur Indonesian: memanggang Italian: cottura, infornata
Japanese: パン焼き Korean: 제빵술 Latvian: cepšana Lithuanian: kepimas Norwegian: baking; bakst Polish: pieczenie Portuguese (Brazil): pastelaria Portuguese (Portugal): pastelaria Romanian: coacere Russian: выпекание Slovak: pečenie Slovenian: peka Spanish: pastelería Swedish: bakning Turkish: fırında pişirme
See also: a baker's dozen ,
bake ,
baked ,
baking powder ,
baker ,
bakery
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Bake\ (b[=a]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Baked (b[=a]kt); p. pr. & vb. n.
Baking .] [AS. bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG. bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baca, Dan. bage, Gr. ? to roast.]
1. To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.
Note: Baking is the term usually applied to that method of cooking which exhausts the moisture in food more than roasting or broiling; but the distinction of meaning between roasting and baking is not always observed.
2. To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
3. To harden by cold.
The earth . . . is baked with frost. --Shak.
They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone. --Spenser.
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gein to roast; < IE alternating base *bheHog-, bhəg-
