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bake

/beɪk/ · noun

Meaning

  1. The act of cooking food by baking.
  2. Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
  3. A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
  4. (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).
  5. Any item that is baked.
  6. (with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven.
  7. (with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
  8. To be warmed to drying and hardening.
  9. To dry by heat.
  10. To be hot.
  11. To cause to be hot.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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