to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.
to harden by heat: to bake pottery in a kiln.
to dry by, or subject to heat: The sun baked the land.
verb (used without object),baked,bak·ing.
to bake bread, a casserole, etc.
to become baked: The cake will bake in about half an hour.
to be subjected to heat: The lizard baked on the hot rocks.
noun
a social occasion at which the chief food is baked.
Scot.cracker (def. 1).
Verb Phrases
bake in / into
Computers.to incorporate (a feature) as part of a system or piece of software or hardware while it is still in development: The location-tracking service is baked in the new app.Security features come baked into the operating system.
to include as an inseparable or permanent part: Baked into the price of the product is the cost of advertising.
Origin of bake
First recorded before 1000; Middle English baken, Old English bacan; cognate with Old High German bahhan, Old Norse baka; akin to Dutch bakken, German backen, Greek phṓgein “to roast”; from Proto-Indo-European extended root bhēg-, bhōg- “to warm, roast”
OTHER WORDS FROM bake
outbake,verb (used with object),out·baked,out·bak·ing.o·ver·bake,verb,o·ver·baked,o·ver·bak·ing.pre·bake,verb,pre·baked,pre·bak·ing.re·bake,verb (used with object),re·baked,re·bak·ing.
un·baked,adjectiveun·der·bake,verb (used with object),un·der·baked,un·der·bak·ing.well-baked,adjective