bake

Meaning

Verb

1. To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
2. To be cooked in an oven.
3. To be warmed to drying and hardening.
4. To dry by heat.
5. To be hot.
6. To cause to be hot.
7. (slang) To smoke marijuana.
8. (obsolete) To harden by cold.
9. To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
10. To incorporate into something greater.

Noun

1. The act of cooking food by baking.
2. Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
3. Any food item that is baked, such as a pastry.
4. A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
5. 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).

Concepts

bake

roast

grill

burn

cook

broil

toast

barbecue

fire

fry

become hardened

become hard

cure

warm

scorch

sear

light

stick

burn into one’s memory

plate

print

cook in an oven

microwave

nuke

blister

overheat

set baking

set cooking

harden

concoct

frizz

frizzle

season

torrefy

burning-off

cake

oven

suffocate

swelter

beam

glare

shine

ovenbake

put out

burn off

burn up

cauterise

cauterize

fan

fritter away

parch

retire

set afire

smoke

sting

strike out

tag

torch

urticate

dry

pie

turn brown

heat

set on fire

dehydrate

braai

Pronounced as (IPA)

/beɪk/

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).