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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" Similar
- 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" Similar
noun
- 1. a social gathering at which baked food is eaten: "lobster bakes on deserted islands"
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The meaning of BAKE is to cook by dry heat especially in an oven. How to use bake 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 by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.. See examples of BAKE used in a sentence.
BAKE meaning: 1. to cook inside an oven, without using added liquid or fat: 2. to make something such as earth…. Learn more.
8 meanings: 1. to cook by dry heat in or as if in an oven 2. to cook bread, pastry, etc, in an oven 3. to make or become.... Click for more definitions.
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. /beɪk/ Verb Forms. [transitive, intransitive] to cook food in an oven without extra fat or liquid; to be cooked in this way. bake (something) to bake bread/biscuits/cookies. baked potatoes/apples. the delicious smell of baking bread. The bread is baking in the oven. I've been baking all morning.
bake meaning, definition, what is bake: to cook something using dry heat, in an ...: Learn more.
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)
