bake
to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.
to harden by heat: to bake pottery in a kiln.
to dry by, or subject to heat: The sun baked the land.
to bake bread, a casserole, etc.
to become baked: The cake will bake in about half an hour.
to be subjected to heat: The lizard baked on the hot rocks.
a social occasion at which the chief food is baked.
Scot. cracker (def. 1).
bake in / into
Computers. to incorporate (a feature) as part of a system or piece of software or hardware while it is still in development: The location-tracking service is baked in the new app.Security features come baked into the operating system.
to include as an inseparable or permanent part: Baked into the price of the product is the cost of advertising.
Origin of bake
1Other words from bake
- outbake, 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
- un·der·bake, verb (used with object), un·der·baked, un·der·bak·ing.
- well-baked, adjective
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British Dictionary definitions for bake
/ (beɪk) /
(tr) to cook by dry heat in or as if in an oven
(intr) to cook bread, pastry, etc, in an oven
to make or become hardened by heat
(intr) informal to be extremely hot, as in the heat of the sun
US a party at which the main dish is baked
a batch of things baked at one time
Scot a kind of biscuit
Caribbean a small flat fried cake
Origin of bake
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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