Definition of "bake" in English

verb

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

   • I baked a delicious cherry pie.
   • She's been baking all day to prepare for the dinner.
   • He baked her a cake.

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. (transitive, figuratively) To cause to be hot.

7. (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.

8. (transitive, obsolete) To harden by cold.

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

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

noun

1. The act of cooking food by baking.

2. (especially UK, Australia, New Zealand) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.

3. Any food item that is baked, such as a pastry.

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

5. (Barbados, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten mainly in Barbados, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or sometimes roasted).

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:bake.