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- DictionaryBake/bāk/
verb
- 1. cook (food) by dry heat without direct exposure to a flame, typically in an oven or on a hot surface: "they bake their own bread and cakes"
- 2. (of the sun or other agency) subject (something) to dry heat, especially so as to harden it: "the sun has baked the earth a dusty brown"
noun
- 1. a social gathering at which baked food is eaten: "lobster bakes on deserted islands"
The meaning of BAKE is to cook by dry heat especially in an oven. How to use bake in a sentence.
Bake definition: to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.. See examples of BAKE used in a sentence.
BAKE definition: 1. to cook inside an oven, without using added liquid or fat: 2. to make something such as earth…. Learn more.
Bake Definition. To cook (food) with dry heat, especially in an oven. To cook (food) by dry heat, esp. in an oven. To harden or dry (something) by subjecting to heat in or as if in an oven.
To bake something is to cook it in a hot oven. When you bake a batch of blueberry muffins, your whole house smells delicious. Whether you bake some cookies for dessert, a casserole to take to a potluck supper, or bake a clay pot in a kiln, you cook with a relatively slow, dry heat.
bake. (beɪk) vb. 1. (Cookery) (tr) to cook by dry heat in or as if in an oven. 2. (Cookery) (intr) to cook bread, pastry, etc, in an oven. 3. (Ceramics) to make or become hardened by heat. 4. (intr) informal to be extremely hot, as in the heat of the sun. n.
verb. 1. (transitive) to cook by dry heat in or as if in an oven. 2. (intransitive) to cook bread, pastry, etc, in an oven. 3. to make or become hardened by heat. 4. (intransitive) informal. to be extremely hot, as in the heat of the sun.
Definition of bake verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
BAKE meaning: 1 : to make (food, such as bread and cake) by preparing a dough, batter, etc., and cooking it in an oven using dry heat; 2 : to cook (food) in an oven using dry heat used in recipes
to cook something such as bread or a cake with dry heat in an oven: a baked apple. (Definition of bake from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
