bake

From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), 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”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “roast”, verb).

• IPA^(key): /beɪk/

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• Rhymes: -eɪk

bake (third-person singular simple present bakes, present participle baking, simple past baked or (dialectal) book, past participle baked or (dialectal) baken)

1. (ditransitive or intransitive) (with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven.

   I baked a delicious cherry pie.

   She's been baking all day to prepare for the dinner.

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

   The cake baked at 350°F.

3. (intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.

   The clay baked in the sun.

4. (transitive) To dry by heat.

   They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.

5. (intransitive, figuratively) To be hot.

   It is baking in the greenhouse.

   I'm baking after that workout in the gym.

6. (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
7. To harden by cold.
   • William Shakespeare

     The earth […] is baked with frost.

   • Edmund Spenser

     They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone.

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

In the dialects of northern England, the simple past book and past participle baken are sometimes encountered.

• See also Thesaurus:cook

• roast

bake (plural bakes)

1. The act of cooking food by baking.
   • 2015, Patricia Grace, Chappy, →ISBN:

     Taking one of her cakes or a tray of biscuits from the oven always gives her satisfaction and a moment of pride; that is, of course, unless there happens to be some little element that doesn't please her with the bake.

2. (especially Britain, New Zealand) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
   • 2009, Dictionary of Food: International Food and Cooking Terms from A to Z →ISBN:

     A fish bake made with cod chunks, sliced parboiled potatoes, […]

   • 2009, Rosalind Peters, Kate Pankhurst, Clive Boursnell, Midnight Feast Magic: Sleepover Fun and Food

     If you happen to have small, heat-proof glass or ceramic pots in your kitchen (known as ramekins) then you can make this very easy pasta bake in fun-size, individual portions.

3. (US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
   • 1904, Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology:

     The central episode is the temporary burial of the novitiate; a shallow pit is excavated, and in this a fire is made, as for a fish bake; […]

   • 1939, The American Photo-engraver, volume 31, page 289:

     I am about to launch a scheme for our local to invest a few dollars in a spot where the boys will know where to find company and pass a few hours or a week-end out in the fresh air and partake of shrimp bakes or fish fries and so forget the on-creeping years.

   • 2006, Jeffery P. Sandman, ‎Peter R. Sandman, Soaring and Gliding: The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Area:

     […] also featured a fish bake, a dance, and a beach party[.]

4. (Barbados, 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).
   • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:bake.
5. Any item that is baked.
   • 2016, Annie Rigg, Great British Bake Off: Children's Party Cakes & Bakes:

     Baking parchment should not be confused with greaseproof paper — the former has a non-stick coating and will ensure that your bakes lift out of the tin or off the baking sheets easily, the latter will have the opposite effect!

• Baek, beak, beka

From Latin pax, pace.

bake

1. peace

• baketu

Unknown; see bakke for more.

bake (plural bakes)

1. Alternative form of bakke (“bat”)

From Old English bacan.

bake

1. Alternative form of baken (“to bake”)

From baken, the past participle of the above verb.

bake

1. Alternative form of baken (“meal involving pastry”)

From Old English bæc.

bake

1. Alternative form of bak

From Old Norse baka

bake (imperative bak, present tense baker, passive bakes, simple past bakte, past participle bakt)

1. to bake (something)

• bakebolle
• bakepapir
• bakepulver

• baker (noun)
• baking

• “bake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• baka

From Old Norse baka

bake (present tense bakar or baker, past tense baka or bakte, past participle baka or bakt, passive infinitive bakast, present participle bakande, imperative bak)

1. to bake (something)

• bakebolle
• bakepapir
• bakepulver

• bakar (noun)
• baking

• “bake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.