bake
noun
- 1
The act of cooking food by baking.
- 2
Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
- 3
A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
- 4
(Barbadian, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten in Barbados and sometimes elsewhere, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or in some places sometimes roasted).
- 5
Any item that is baked.
verb
- 1
(with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven.
“I baked a delicious cherry pie.”
- 2
(with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
“The cake baked at 350°F.”
- 3
To be warmed to drying and hardening.
“The clay baked in the sun.”
- 4
To dry by heat.
“They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.”
- 5
To be hot.
“I'm baking after that workout in the gym.”
- 6
To cause to be hot.
- 7
To smoke marijuana.
- 8
To harden by cold.
- 9
To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
- 10
(with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.
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