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bake

/beɪk/
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noun

  • The act of cooking food by baking.
  • Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
  • A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
  • (Barbadian, sometimes US and UK) 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).
  • Any item that is baked.

verb

  • (with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven.

    "I baked a delicious cherry pie."

  • (with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.

    "The cake baked at 350°F."

  • To be warmed to drying and hardening.

    "The clay baked in the sun."

  • To dry by heat.

    "They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture."

  • To be hot.

    "I'm baking after that workout in the gym."

  • To cause to be hot.
  • To smoke marijuana.
  • To harden by cold.
  • To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
  • (with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.

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