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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.
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Origin:
before 1000; Middle English baken, Old English bacan, past participle bōc baked; cognate with Old High German bahhan, past buoh, Old Norse baka; akin to Dutch bakken, German backen, Greek phṓgein to roast; < IE alternating base *bheHog-, bhəg-
before 1000; Middle English baken, Old English bacan, past participle bōc baked; cognate with Old High German bahhan, past buoh, Old Norse baka; akin to Dutch bakken, German backen, Greek phṓgein to roast; < IE alternating base *bheHog-, bhəg-
Related forms
out·bake, verb (used with object), out·baked, out·bak·ing.
o·ver·bake, verb, o·ver·baked, o·ver·bak·ing.
pre·bake, verb, pre·baked, pre·bak·ing.
re·bake, verb (used with object), re·baked, re·bak·ing.
un·baked, adjective
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World English Dictionary
bake (beɪk) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | (tr) to cook by dry heat in or as if in an oven |
| 2. | (intr) to cook bread, pastry, etc, in an oven |
| 3. | to make or become hardened by heat |
| 4. | informal (intr) to be extremely hot, as in the heat of the sun |
| —n | |
| 5. | (US) a party at which the main dish is baked |
| 6. | a batch of things baked at one time |
| 7. | (Scot) a kind of biscuit |
| 8. | (Caribbean) a small flat fried cake |
| [Old English bacan; related to Old Norse baka, Old High German bahhan to bake, Greek phōgein to parch, roast] | |
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Word Origin & History
bake
O.E. bacan "to bake," from P.Gmc. *bakanan (cf. O.N. baka, M.Du. backen, O.H.G. bahhan, Ger. backen), from P.Gmc. *bakan "to bake," from PIE *bheg- "to warm, roast, bake" (cf. Gk. phogein "to roast"), from base *bhe- "to warm."
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Bake definition
The duty of preparing bread was usually, in ancient times, committed to the females or the slaves of the family (Gen. 18:6; Lev. 26:26; 1 Sam. 8:13); but at a later period we find a class of public bakers mentioned (Hos. 7:4, 6; Jer. 37:21). The bread was generally in the form of long or round cakes (Ex. 29:23; 1 Sam. 2:36), of a thinness that rendered them easily broken (Isa. 58:7; Matt. 14:19; 26:26; Acts 20:11). Common ovens were generally used; at other times a jar was half-filled with hot pebbles, and the dough was spread over them. Hence we read of "cakes baken on the coals" (1 Kings 19:6), and "baken in the oven" (Lev. 2:4). (See BREAD.)
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Example sentences
Bake thirty minutes in a hot oven, basting every five minutes with one-fourth cup butter melted in one-fourth cup boiling water.
Place on iron or tin sheet covered with brown paper, and bake twenty-five minutes in hot oven.
Bake on the middle rack of the oven about seven minutes, then check the potatoes.
Line patty pans with puff or plain paste, fill with the following mixture, and bake in a moderate oven until firm.
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