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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BAKE, v.t.
1. To heat, dry and harden, as in an oven or furnace, or under coals of fire; to dress and prepare for food, in a close place heated; as, to bake bread.
2. To dry and harden by heat, either in an oven, kiln or furnace, or by the solar rays; as, to bake bricks; to bake the ground.
BAKE, v.i. To do the work of baking; as, she brews, washes and bakes.
2. To be baked; to dry and harden in heat; as, the bread bakes, the ground bakes in a hot sun.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven; "bake the potatoes"
2: prepare with dry heat in an oven; "bake a cake"
3: heat by a natural force; "The sun broils the valley in the summer" [syn: broil, bake]
4: be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun; "The town was broiling in the sun"; "the tourists were baking in the heat" [syn: bake, broil]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (baked; baking) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English bacan; akin to Old High German bahhan to bake, Greek ph?gein to roast Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. to cook (as food) by dry heat especially in an oven 2. to dry or harden by subjecting to heat intransitive verb 1. to prepare food by baking it 2. to become baked 3. to be or become extremely hot <sidewalks baking in the sun> • baker noun II. noun Date: 1565 1. the act or process of baking 2. a social gathering at which a baked food is served

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. 1 a tr. cook (food) by dry heat in an oven or on a hot surface, without direct exposure to a flame. b intr. undergo the process of being baked. 2 intr. colloq. a (usu. as be baking) (of weather etc.) be very hot. b (of a person) become hot. 3 a tr. harden (clay etc.) by heat. b intr. (of clay etc.) be hardened by heat. 4 a tr. (of the sun) affect by its heat, e.g. ripen (fruit). b intr. (e.g. of fruit) be affected by the sun's heat. --n. 1 the act or an instance of baking. 2 a batch of baking. 3 US a social gathering at which baked food is eaten. Phrases and idioms: baked Alaska see ALASKA. baked beans baked haricot beans, usu. tinned in tomato sauce. baking-powder a mixture of sodium bicarbonate, cream of tartar, etc., used instead of yeast in baking. baking-soda sodium bicarbonate. Etymology: OE bacan

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bake Bake (b[=a]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Baked (b[=a]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Baking.] [AS. bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG. bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baca, Dan. bage, Gr. ? to roast.] 1. To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples. Note: Baking is the term usually applied to that method of cooking which exhausts the moisture in food more than roasting or broiling; but the distinction of meaning between roasting and baking is not always observed. 2. To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground. 3. To harden by cold. The earth . . . is baked with frost. --Shak. They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone. --Spenser.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bake Bake, v. i. 1. To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes. --Shak. 2. To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bake Bake, n. The process, or result, of baking.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(bakes, baking, baked) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If you bake, you spend some time preparing and mixing together ingredients to make bread, cakes, pies, or other food which is cooked in the oven. How did you learn to bake cakes?... I love to bake. VERB: no passive, V n, V • baking On a Thursday she used to do all the baking. N-UNCOUNT: also the N 2. When a cake or bread bakes or when you bake it, it cooks in the oven without any extra liquid or fat. Bake the cake for 35 to 50 minutes... The batter rises as it bakes. ...freshly baked bread. VERB: V n, V, V-ed 3. If places or people become extremely hot because the sun is shining very strongly, you can say that they bake. If you closed the windows you baked... Britain bakes in a Mediterranean heatwave. VERB: V, V 4. A vegetable or fish bake is a dish that is made by chopping up and mixing together a number of ingredients and cooking them in the oven so that they form a fairly dry solid mass. (BRIT) ...an aubergine bake. N-COUNT: usu n N 5. see also baking

Easton's Bible Dictionary

The duty of preparing bread was usually, in ancient times, committed to the females or the slaves of the family (Gen. 18:6; Lev. 26:26; 1 Sam. 8:13); but at a later period we find a class of public bakers mentioned (Hos. 7:4, 6; Jer. 37:21).

The bread was generally in the form of long or round cakes (Ex. 29:23; 1 Sam. 2:36), of a thinness that rendered them easily broken (Isa. 58:7; Matt. 14:19; 26:26; Acts 20:11). Common ovens were generally used; at other times a jar was half-filled with hot pebbles, and the dough was spread over them. Hence we read of "cakes baken on the coals" (1 Kings 19:6), and "baken in the oven" (Lev. 2:4). (See BREAD.)

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Harden (by heat), dry up, parch, stiffen. 2. Cook (in the oven).

Moby Thesaurus

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