noun
Meaning 1
The act of cooking food by baking.
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noun
The act of cooking food by baking.
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noun
Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
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Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, especially
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noun
Any food item that is baked, such as a pastry.
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noun
A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
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Usage: US
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noun
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).
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Usage: Barbados, UK, US, sometimes
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verb
To cook using an oven, especially baked goods.
To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
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Usage: ditransitive, intransitive, transitive
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verb
To cook using an oven, especially baked goods.
To be cooked in an oven.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To cook using an oven, especially baked goods.
To regularly prepare baked goods.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To cook using an oven, especially baked goods.
To incorporate into something greater.
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Usage: figuratively
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verb
To heat or dry.
To be warmed to drying and hardening.
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Usage: intransitive
Synonyms: fire
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verb
To heat or dry.
To dry by heat.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To heat or dry.
To be hot.
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Usage: figuratively, intransitive
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verb
To heat or dry.
To cause to be hot.
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Usage: figuratively, transitive
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verb
To harden by cold.
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Usage: broadly, obsolete, transitive
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verb
To harden by cold.
To smoke marijuana.
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Usage: broadly, intransitive, obsolete, slang, transitive
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verb
To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
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Usage: transitive
Topics: computer-graphics, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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verb
cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven
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Broader terms: cook
Narrower terms: ovenbake, fire, shirr
verb
heat by a natural force
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Synonyms: broil
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Broader terms: heat, heat up
verb
prepare with dry heat in an oven
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Broader terms: create from raw material, create from raw stuff
verb
be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun
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Synonyms: broil
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Broader terms: be
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bheh3g- Proto-Indo-European *bhh3g- Proto-Germanic *bakaną Proto-West Germanic *bakan Old English bacan Middle English baken English bake From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, 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”), Norwegian Bokmål bake (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “roast”, verb).
Across languages
196 source translations are retained for this English entry.