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bake

[beyk] 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.
8. Scot. cracker (def. 1).

Origin:
bef. 1000; ME baken, OE bacan, ptp. bōc baked; c. OHG bahhan, past buoh, ON baka; akin to D bakken, G backen, Gk phgein to roast; < IE alternating base *bheHog-, bhəg-
bake   (bāk)   
v.   baked, bak·ing, bakes

v.   tr.
  1. To cook (food) with dry heat, especially in an oven.
  2. To harden or dry (something) by subjecting to heat in or as if in an oven: bake bricks.
v.   intr.
  1. To cook food with dry heat.
  2. To become hardened or dry by or as if by having been subjected to the heat of an oven.
n.  
    1. The act or process of baking.
    2. An amount baked.
  1. A social gathering at which food is cooked by baking and then served.

[Middle English baken, from Old English bacan.]

Baking

Bak"ing\, n. 1. The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.

2. The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread.

Baking powder, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting of an acid, a carbonate, and a little farinaceous matter.
Language Translation for : baking
Spanish: pastelería,
German: das Backen,
Japanese: パン焼き
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