bake
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- (“to roast, bake”).
Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Norwegian Bokmål bake (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “roast”, verb).
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editbake (third-person singular simple present bakes, present participle baking, simple past baked or (dialectal) book, past participle baked or (dialectal) baken)
- (transitive or intransitive or ditransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
- I baked a delicious cherry pie.
- She's been baking all day to prepare for the dinner.
- He baked her a cake.
- (intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
- The cake baked at 350°F.
- (intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.
- The clay baked in the sun.
- (transitive) To dry by heat.
- They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be hot.
- It is baking in the greenhouse.
- I'm baking after that workout in the gym.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cause to be hot.
- 2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 112:
- My dad told me about his days in the Navy: He'd agreed to be a guinea pig in exchange for a shorter enlistment. […] They baked him in the sun.
- (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (transitive, obsolete) To harden by cold.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- The earth […] is baked with frost.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 9:
- They bake their sides vppon the cold, hard stone.
- (computer graphics, transitive) To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
- (figurative, with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.
- 2014, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security, Airline Industry Consolidation: Hearing, page 36:
- Disagreements between pilots' unions are baked into the merger cake.
- 2016, David B. Woolner, John M. Thompson, Progressivism in America: Past, Present and Future, page 100:
- Many of the causes of governmental dysfunction are simply baked into the cake of American politics and will never change.
Usage notes
editIn the dialects of northern England, the simple past book and past participle baken are sometimes encountered.
Synonyms
edit- See also Thesaurus:cook
Derived terms
edit- bakable
- bakeability
- bakeable
- bakeaholic
- bakeboard
- baked
- bakehead
- bakehouse
- bakemeat
- bakeoff
- bake off
- bake-off
- bake out
- bakeoven
- bakery
- bake sale
- bakeshop
- bake someone's bread
- bakestone
- bake up
- bakeware
- baking
- Baxter
- baxter
- clam bake
- clambake
- dump-and-bake
- fake-bake
- half-baked
- hardbake
- in a bake
- no-bake
- outbake
- overbake
- pasta bake
- prebake
- rebake
- shake-and-bake
- shake and bake
- shake 'n bake
- shake 'n' bake
- steak bake
- sunbake
- take-and-bake
- traybake
- underbake
- wake and bake
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Noun
editbake (plural bakes)
- The act of cooking food by baking.
- 2015, Patricia Grace, Chappy, →ISBN:
- Taking one of her cakes or a tray of biscuits from the oven always gives her satisfaction and a moment of pride; that is, of course, unless there happens to be some little element that doesn't please her with the bake.
- (especially UK, Australia, New Zealand) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
- 2009, Dictionary of Food: International Food and Cooking Terms from A to Z, →ISBN:
- A fish bake made with cod chunks, sliced parboiled potatoes, […]
- 2009, Rosalind Peters, Kate Pankhurst, Clive Boursnell, Midnight Feast Magic: Sleepover Fun and Food:
- If you happen to have small, heat-proof glass or ceramic pots in your kitchen (known as ramekins) then you can make this very easy pasta bake in fun-size, individual portions.
- Any food item that is baked, such as a pastry.
- 2016, Annie Rigg, Great British Bake Off: Children's Party Cakes & Bakes:
- Baking parchment should not be confused with greaseproof paper — the former has a non-stick coating and will ensure that your bakes lift out of the tin or off the baking sheets easily, the latter will have the opposite effect!
- 2024 May 24, The Press and Journal, Inverness, page 28, column 2:
- Traditionally made with flour, salt, yeast and a large amount of fat or lard, it is claimed that the beloved bake has fallen out of favour with younger people.
- (US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
- 1904, Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology:
- The central episode is the temporary burial of the novitiate; a shallow pit is excavated, and in this a fire is made, as for a fish bake; […]
- 1939, The American Photo-engraver, volume 31, page 289:
- I am about to launch a scheme for our local to invest a few dollars in a spot where the boys will know where to find company and pass a few hours or a week-end out in the fresh air and partake of shrimp bakes or fish fries and so forget the on-creeping years.
- 2006, Jeffery P. Sandman, Peter R. Sandman, Soaring and Gliding: The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Area:
- […] also featured a fish bake, a dance, and a beach party[.]
- (Barbados, 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).
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:bake.
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Noun
editbake inan
Declension
editindefinite | singular | plural | |
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absolutive | bake | bakea | bakeak |
ergative | bakek | bakeak | bakeek |
dative | bakeri | bakeari | bakeei |
genitive | bakeren | bakearen | bakeen |
comitative | bakerekin | bakearekin | bakeekin |
causative | bakerengatik | bakearengatik | bakeengatik |
benefactive | bakerentzat | bakearentzat | bakeentzat |
instrumental | bakez | bakeaz | bakeez |
inessive | baketan | bakean | bakeetan |
locative | baketako | bakeko | bakeetako |
allative | baketara | bakera | bakeetara |
terminative | baketaraino | bakeraino | bakeetaraino |
directive | baketarantz | bakerantz | bakeetarantz |
destinative | baketarako | bakerako | bakeetarako |
ablative | baketatik | baketik | bakeetatik |
partitive | bakerik | — | — |
prolative | baketzat | — | — |
Derived terms
edit- bake-epaile
- bake-epaitegi
- bakea eman
- bakeak egin
- bakealdi (“times of peace”)
- bakean
- bakean joan
- bakean utzi
- bakearazi (“to pacify”)
- bakebide
- bakegile (“peacemaker”)
- bakegintza (“pacification”)
- bakeoso
- baketi
- baketiar
- baketsu (“peaceful, pacifist”)
- baketu (“to pacify”)
- baketzaile (“peacemaker”)
- bakez
- bakezale (“pacifist”)
- bakezaletasun (“pacifism”)
- bakezko
- bakezkoak egin
Verb
editbake
- Short form of baketu (“to pacify”).
Further reading
edit- “bake”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
- “bake”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005
Middle English
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editbake (plural bakes)
Etymology 2
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editbake
- Alternative form of baken (“to bake”)
Etymology 3
editNoun
editbake
- Alternative form of baken (“meal involving pastry”)
Etymology 4
editNoun
editbake
- Alternative form of bak
Norwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
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editbake (imperative bak, present tense baker, passive bakes, simple past bakte, past participle bakt)
- to bake (something)
Derived terms
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editReferences
edit- “bake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
editVerb
editbake (present tense bakar or baker, past tense baka or bakte, past participle baka or bakt, passive infinitive bakast, present participle bakande, imperative bak)
- e-infinitive form of baka
Serbo-Croatian
editNoun
editbake (Cyrillic spelling баке)
- inflection of baka:
Wolio
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editNoun
editbake
References
edit- Anceaux, Johannes C. (1987) Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia), Dordrecht: Foris
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