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bake

bake
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [beyk]
    • /beɪk/
    • /beɪk/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [beyk]
    • /beɪk/

Definitions of bake word

  • verb bake If you bake, you spend some time preparing and mixing together ingredients to make bread, cakes, pies, or other food which is cooked in the oven. 3
  • verb bake When a cake or bread bakes or when you bake it, it cooks in the oven without any extra liquid or fat. 3
  • verb bake If places or people become extremely hot because the sun is shining very strongly, you can say that they bake. 3
  • countable noun bake A vegetable or fish bake is a dish that is made by chopping up and mixing together a number of ingredients and cooking them in the oven so that they form a fairly dry solid mass. 3
  • verb bake to cook by dry heat in or as if in an oven 3
  • verb bake to cook bread, pastry, etc, in an oven 3

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Origin of bake

First appearance:

before 1000
One of the 6% oldest English words
before 1000; Middle English baken, Old English bacan, past participle bōc baked; cognate with Old High German bahhan, past buoh, Old Norse baka; akin to Dutch bakken, German backen, Greek phṓgein to roast; < IE alternating base *bheHog-, bhəg-

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Bake

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

bake popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 90% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

bake usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for bake

verb bake

  • heat — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
  • warm — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
  • simmer — to cook or cook in a liquid at or just below the boiling point.
  • melt — to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
  • stew — to cook (food) by simmering or slow boiling.

noun bake

  • barbecue — A barbecue is a piece of equipment which you use for cooking on in the open air.
  • kiln — a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying something, especially one for firing pottery, calcining limestone, or baking bricks.
  • oast — a kiln for drying hops or malt.

Antonyms for bake

verb bake

  • cool — Something that is cool has a temperature which is low but not very low.
  • freeze — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.

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