BAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bake mean? 

• BAKE (verb)
  The verb BAKE has 4 senses:

1. cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven

2. prepare with dry heat in an oven

3. heat by a natural force

4. be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun

  Familiarity information: BAKE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAKE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they bake    ... he / she / it bakes   
Past simple: baked   
Past participle: baked   
-ing form: baking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

bake the potatoes

Hypernyms (to "bake" is one way to...):

cook (transform and make suitable for consumption by heating)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bake"):

ovenbake (bake in an oven)

fire (bake in a kiln so as to harden)

shirr (bake (eggs) in their shells until they are set)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

The chefs bake the vegetables

Derivation:

baking (cooking by dry heat in an oven)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Prepare with dry heat in an oven

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

bake a cake

Hypernyms (to "bake" is one way to...):

create from raw material; create from raw stuff (make from scratch)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

baker (someone who bakes bread or cake)

baker (someone who bakes commercially)

baking (making bread or cake or pastry etc.)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Heat by a natural force

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

bake; broil

Context example:

The sun broils the valley in the summer

Hypernyms (to "bake" is one way to...):

heat; heat up (make hot or hotter)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

bake; broil

Context example:

the tourists were baking in the heat

Hypernyms (to "bake" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

This was the invidious distinction between them and the Sour-doughs, who, forsooth, made their bread from sour-dough because they had no baking- powder.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He's been starved, and he shan't be baked now he's dead.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He found me in the kitchen, watching the progress of certain cakes for tea, then baking.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And once Gretel was inside, she intended to shut the oven and let her bake in it, and then she would eat her, too.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The socialist philosophy that riots half-baked in your veins has passed me by.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They make a rude kind of earthen and wooden vessels, and bake the former in the sun.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

At five in the morning Maud brought me hot coffee and biscuits she had baked, and at seven a substantial and piping hot breakfast put new lift into me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Any of various baked foods made of dough or batter.

(Pastry, NCI Thesaurus)

The apples themselves are the very finest sort for baking, beyond a doubt; all from Donwell—some of Mr. Knightley's most liberal supply.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)