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bake

Pronunciation: /beɪk/

The English word “bake” has 16 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
  2. To be cooked in an oven.
  3. To regularly prepare baked goods.
  4. To smoke marijuana.
  5. To incorporate into something greater.
  6. To be warmed for drying and hardening.
  7. To dry by heat.
  8. To be hot.
  9. To cause to be hot.
  10. To harden by cold.
  11. To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.

noun

  1. The act of cooking food by baking.
  2. Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
  3. Any food item that is baked, such as a pastry.
  4. A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
  5. 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).

Etymology

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…

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