bake

/beษชk/

IPA: /B EY1 K/

noun
  1. 1

    The act of cooking food by baking.

  2. 2

    Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.

  3. 3

    A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.

  4. 4

    (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).

  5. 5

    Any item that is baked.

verb
  1. 1

    (with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven.

    โ€œI baked a delicious cherry pie.โ€

  2. 2

    (with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.

    โ€œThe cake baked at 350ยฐF.โ€

  3. 3

    To be warmed to drying and hardening.

    โ€œThe clay baked in the sun.โ€

  4. 4

    To dry by heat.

    โ€œThey baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.โ€

  5. 5

    To be hot.

    โ€œI'm baking after that workout in the gym.โ€

  6. 6

    To cause to be hot.

  7. 7

    To smoke marijuana.

  8. 8

    To harden by cold.

  9. 9

    To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.

  10. 10

    (with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bake