Definitions for BAKE
beɪkbake

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bakeverb

   cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven

   "bake the potatoes"

2. bakeverb

   prepare with dry heat in an oven

   "bake a cake"

3. broil, bakeverb

   heat by a natural force

   "The sun broils the valley in the summer"

4. bake, broilverb

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bakenoun

   Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.

2. bakenoun

   The act of cooking food by baking.

3. bakeverb

   To cook (something) in an oven, but not in fat. Compare roast.

4. bakeverb

   To dry by heat.

5. bakeverb

   (Of a person, the weather, or an object:) To be hot.

6. bakeverb

   To become baked.

   The bread is baking at the moment.

7. bakeverb

   To smoke marijuana.

8. Etymology: From baken, from bacan, from bakanan, from bʰōg-. Cognate with bakken, backen, baka, φώγω, پختن.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Bakeverb

   participle passive, baked, or baken.

   Etymology: bæcan, Sax. becken, Germ. supposed by Johann Georg Wachter to come from bec, which, in the Phrygian language, signified bread.

   1. To heat any thing in a close place; generally in an oven.

   He will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread. Isaiah, xliv. 15.

   The difference of prices of bread proceeded from their delicacy in bread, and perhaps something in their manner of baking. John Arbuthnot, on Coins.

   2. To harden in the fire.

   The work of the fire is a kind of baking; and whatsoever the fire baketh, time doth in some degree dissolve. Francis Bacon.

   3. To harden with heat.

   With vehement suns
   When dusty summer bakes the crumbling clods,
   How pleasant is’t, beneath the twisted arch,
   To ply the sweet carouse! Philips.

   The sun with flaming arrows pierc’d the flood,
   And, darting to the bottom, bak’d the mud. Dryden.

2. To Bakeverb

   1. To do the work of baking.

   I keep his house, and I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat, and make the beds, and do all myself. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.

   2. To be heated or baked.

   Fillet of a fenny snake,
   In the cauldron boil and bake. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bakeverb

   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

2. Bakeverb

   to dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground

3. Bakeverb

   to harden by cold

4. Bakeverb

   to do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes

5. Bakeverb

   to be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun

6. Bakenoun

   the process, or result, of baking

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bake

   bāk, v.t. to dry, harden, or cook by the heat of the sun or of fire: to prepare bread or other food in an oven: to harden as by frost.—v.i. to work as a baker: to become firm through heat.—pa.p. baked (bākt); pr.p. bāk′ing.—ns. Bake′house, a house or place used for baking in; Bake′meat (B.), pastry, pies.—pa.p. Bak′en = baked.—ns. Bak′er, one who bakes bread, &c.—(obs.) Bax′ter; Bak′ery, a bakehouse; Bake′stone, a flat stone or plate of iron on which cakes are baked in the oven; Bak′ing, the process by which bread is baked: the quantity baked at one time. [A.S. bacan; cog. with Ger. backen, to bake, Gr. phog-ein, to roast.]

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1. BAKE

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BAKE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bake is ranked #31906 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Bake surname appeared 723 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Bake.
   
   91% or 658 total occurrences were White.
   4.4% or 32 total occurrences were Black.
   3.4% or 25 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.9% or 7 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Cook
   • Cookery
   • Create From Raw Material
   • Heat

Anagrams for BAKE »

1. beak

How to pronounce BAKE?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say BAKE in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of BAKE in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of BAKE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of BAKE in a Sentence

1. Jerry Nadler:

   Rather than letting the facts of the report speak for themselves, The Attorney General has taken unprecedented steps to spin Mueller's nearly two year investigation, the central concern here is that Attorney General Barr is not allowing the facts of the Mueller report to speak for themselves but is trying to bake in the narrative about the report to the benefit of the White House.

2. Carl Sagan:

   If you want to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the Universe.

3. Jackie Mills:

   If you choose to bake with artificial sweeteners, you lose some volume in a cake ; it doesn't brown as well, it gets stale faster... and things made with flour end up tougher, as sugar is a tenderizer. You're not just getting the sweetness of sugar but other attributes when you bake with it.

4. Liubov Yarosh:

   There was nothing to eat then. We ate linden leaves… and nettles. We used to grind these wild plants into flour, bake with it, and eat it. That’s what we ate during the famine.

5. Jackie Mills:

   I just got a mini doughnut pan, and it makes the cutest desserts. It's probably four bites, so you can bake a regular cake batter in it and have automatic portion control.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=BAKE
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bake
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=BAKE
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/BAKE
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=BAKE
6. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html