bake
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/beɪk/
English
Definitions
noun
- The act of cooking food by baking.
- Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
- A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
- (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).
verb
- (with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven.“I baked a delicious cherry pie.”
- (with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.“The cake baked at 350°F.”
- To be warmed to drying and hardening.“The clay baked in the sun.”
- To dry by heat.“They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.”