bake
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bake
- /beɪk/ US, UK
- /bæɪk/ Australia, New Zealand
- /bek/ Scotland
- /beːk/ Wales
Rhymes with -eɪk
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₃g-
Proto-Germanic *bakaną
Proto-West Germanic *bakan
Old English bacan
Middle English baken
English bake
From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- (“to roast, bake”).
Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Norwegian Bokmål bake (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “roast”, verb).
verb bakes · baking · baked · book
- To cook (something) in an oven (for someone). I baked a delicious cherry pie.
- To be cooked in an oven. The cake baked at 350°F.
- To regularly prepare baked goods. In some cultures, it is expected that a proper housewife should bake.
- To smoke marijuana. (Let's bake tonight.)
- To incorporate into something greater. Disagreements between pilots' unions are baked into the merger cake.
- To be warmed for drying and hardening. The clay baked in the sun.
- To dry by heat. They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.
- To be hot. It is baking in the greenhouse.
- To cause to be hot. My dad told me about his days in the Navy: He'd agreed to be a guinea pig in exchange for a shorter enlistment. […] They baked him in the sun.
- To harden by cold. The earth […] is baked with frost.
- To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
noun bakes
- The act of cooking food by baking. Taking one of her cakes or a tray of biscuits from the oven always gives her satisfaction and a moment of pride; that is, of course, unless there happens to be some little element that doesn't please her with the bake.
- Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole. A fish bake made with cod chunks, sliced parboiled potatoes, […]
- Any food item that is baked, such as a pastry. bake pan
- A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served. an oyster bake on the shore
- A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten mainly in Barbados, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or sometimes roasted). For quotations using this term, see Citations:bake.
