bake
bake
verb
/beɪk/
1 transitive, intransitive to cook food in an oven without extra fat or liquid; to be cooked in this way
bake (something) to bake bread/biscuits/cookies
baked potatoes/apples
the delicious smell of baking bread
The bread is baking in the oven.
I've been baking all morning.
bake something for somebody I'm baking a birthday cake for Alex.
bake somebody something I'm baking Alex a cake.
Collocations Cooking
TOPICS Cooking and eating B1
Collocations
phrases
freshly baked
newly baked
2 ​intransitive, transitive to become hard when heated; to make something hard by heating it
The bricks are left in the kiln to bake.
bake something (+ adj.) The sun had baked the ground hard.
​3 intransitive (informal) to be or become very hot
We sat baking in the sun.
SEE ALSO half-baked
bake
noun
/beɪk/
1 ​a dish consisting of mixed ingredients that is cooked in the oven
a pasta/vegetable bake
2 (North American English) a social event at which a specific food is cooked and eaten
a clam bake
Becker was at the annual Kirkland Rotary salmon bake.
Word Origin
Old English bacan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bakken and German backen.