bake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: bakes
form: baking
form: baked
form: book
form: baked
form: book
form: baken
Etymology: 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”), Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “roast”, verb).
Senses: examples: text: I baked a delicious cherry pie.
text: She's been baking all day to prepare for the dinner.
text: He baked her a cake.
glosses: To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
raw_tags: with person as subject
examples: text: The cake baked at 350°F.
glosses: To be cooked in an oven.
raw_tags: with baked thing as subject
examples: text: The clay baked in the sun.
glosses: To be warmed to drying and hardening.
examples: text: They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.
glosses: To dry by heat.
examples: text: It is baking in the greenhouse.
text: I'm baking after that workout in the gym.
glosses: To be hot.
examples: text: My dad told me about his days in the Navy: He'd agreed to be a guinea pig in exchange for a shorter enlistment. […] They baked him in the sun.
ref: 2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 112:
glosses: To cause to be hot.
glosses: To smoke marijuana.
examples: text: The earth […] is baked with frost.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: They bake their sides vppon the cold, hard stone.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 9:
glosses: To harden by cold.
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glosses: To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
examples: text: Disagreements between pilots' unions are baked into the merger cake.
ref: 2014, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security, Airline Industry Consolidation: Hearing, page 36:
text: Many of the causes of governmental dysfunction are simply baked into the cake of American politics and will never change.
ref: 2016, David B. Woolner, John M. Thompson, Progressivism in America: Past, Present and Future, page 100:
glosses: To incorporate into something greater.
raw_tags: with "in" or "into"
Derived terms: bakable
bakeability
bakeable
bakeaholic
bakeboard
bakecraft
baked
bakehead
bakehouse
bake in
bakemeat
bake-off
bake off
bakeoff
bake out
bakeoven
bakery
bake sale
bakeshop
bake someone's bread
bakestone
bake up
bakeware
baking
Baxter
baxter
clam bake
clambake
dump-and-bake
fake-bake
half-baked
hardbake
in a bake
no-bake
outbake
overbake
parbake
pasta bake
prebake
rebake
shake and bake
shake-and-bake
shake 'n bake
shake 'n' bake
steak bake
sunbake
take-and-bake
traybake
underbake
wake and bake
Related terms: roast