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verb beɪkbeɪk [with object]1Cook (food) by dry heat without direct exposure to a flame, typically in an oven. they bake their own bread and cakes Example sentencesExamples - A conventional gas or electric oven bakes bread with a lot of hot air, or convection.
- She had put up a table for the presents, put balloons and streamers everywhere and helped the cook bake her own cake.
- Hop Sing served roast beef, new potatoes in gravy, fresh baked bread, and apples in a glazed cinnamon sauce.
- Together we discovered a sack of flour, mixed it with water, started the ovens and baked flat breads.
- Line the tart with foil, fill with baking beans and cook for 10 min.
- Stuffing it into her mouth, she grunted and let the cook get on with baking the bread.
- While baking the cake we cooked the fish and chips and ate the food as it was gradually cooked while talking about terrible plane incidents on QANTAS airlines.
- The old ovens are wood-fired and bake beautiful bread.
- My mother cooked everything and baked our cakes.
- She entered the kitchen to the enticing smell of beef stew, newly baked bread, and apple pie.
- But it wasn't until my mother baked Apple Pye that the king deigned to visit.
- Lorna served a thick meat-filled stew, with fresh baked bread and warm apple pie for dessert.
- To distract myself from the wait for Elle to deliver, I had cooked them the same fruited breads and baked sausages that I served the soldiers.
- The kitchen faces part of the restaurant and I was encouraged to see that they had installed a wood-fired oven for baking pizzas.
- We cook, bake bread, make cheese, sew, make soap and candles, and milk goats.
- She loves us a lot and cooks lovely dinners and bakes nice buns and tarts.
- Some examples of healthy comfort food include baked sweet potatoes, minestrone soup or sauteed vegetables over rice.
- The advantage lies in the fact that microwave oven bakes the moist ingredients about three times faster.
- Fan-assisted ovens and baking bread simply don't go together.
- I'm also pretty good at English puddings: I like cooking baked apples, crème brûlée and rice pudding.
Synonyms cook, oven-bake, dry-roast, roast, spit-roast, pot-roast rare oven - 1.1no object (of food) be cooked by baking.
the bread was baking on hot stones Example sentencesExamples - While apples are baking, place remaining sugar and spices into the sauce pan, ensuring it's well mixed.
- The pizzas were freshly baked in a brick oven and tasted absolutely fantastic.
- After the bread was baked, ovens could have been utilised for a range of dishes that needed long, slow cooking.
- I guess we should just go up to her while our cake is baking and tell her just how we feel.
- Once the cookies were baking, we took a break, and walked into the living room.
- Cookies will bake more evenly if they spend equal time on the top and bottom racks of the oven.
- While pie is baking, mix the topping ingredients, first the butter and brown sugar until crumbly, then blending in the nuts.
- While cake is baking, make the icing by mixing together cream cheese, creme fraiche, butter, vanilla, sugar and walnuts.
- While the squash is baking, place 1/4 cup of olive oil into your soup pot that has been placed over medium heat.
- While the pie was baking, she removed some vegetables and meat from the icebox to prepare for dinner.
- Soda bread or cakes were baked in the pot oven over the dying embers of the fire and covered with a few sods of burning turf.
- The bread is baked in a wood-fired oven, which takes two weeks to reach temperature.
- It was, of course, understood that the factory was being built as a bakery making specialist breads and that these breads would be baked in ovens.
- All the pizzas are freshly baked in the downstairs oven which can be seen by diners and passers-by alike.
- This version is particularly easy to make, because the fish is placed raw in a baking dish and covered with the boiling sauce, before being baked in the oven for a few minutes.
- It may not look special, but it is special: the sauce is fresh, the cheese is real, the crust is baked in a wood-burning oven.
- To help keep larger cuts of meat from drying out while broiling, grilling or baking, sear them first.
- This can be made ahead, then reheated while the biscuits or corn bread are baking.
- Originally, the biscuits were baked in large industrial ovens, but the recipe has been altered so that one can bake them in a domestic oven.
- When the cake has baked, take it out and invert onto a sugared baking sheet.
Synonyms brown, crisp, crisp up, grill, barbecue, singe, sear
2(of the sun or other agency) subject (something) to dry heat, especially so as to harden it. the soil in the desert is baked dry by the fierce heat of the sun Example sentencesExamples - The busy streets of Los Angeles were swept away by the unusual heat wave baking the city.
- Like thin air shimmering when powerful heat bakes it, he continued his waiting.
- When the mud gets baked by the sun, spreading cracks curve around the weakened edge of this column and so bypass the insect.
- Instead of finding their way to the sea, they will scuttle along the full length of the man-made trap until the sun rises, baking them alive.
- Muscles on his upper arms glistened as the hot sun of the afternoon baked its way across the open pasture.
- At dusk tonight, somewhere in Afghanistan's blasted and baked mountains and deserts, a small group of men will face the setting sun and kneel.
- The dry air baked their lips and forced them to crack.
- They were battered by gales, and baked by the sun.
- The primer surface is then baked at high heat to get a reasonably secure mechanical grip.
- At first, as he says his anti-war position ‘arises from a vision that views the world holistically,’ the audience listens listlessly as the heat bakes the yard.
- The early afternoon sun was now baking my tired body as I cruised the rolling downhills listening to my IPod.
- And the sun will bake the soil and the plants and the rains will not come every day.
- It may be the only place that offers a safe haven for you during the daylight hours when the angry eye of the sun will bake your flesh.
- It is warming up, and the sun is baking the buildings across the street from my window, outlining crisp shadows under every single brick.
- Some napped in the shade, while others stripped off shirts and trousers to reveal swim suits so that they could soak in the last baking rays of the sun.
- The sun was baking her skin, turning it a nice golden brown.
- The blazing hot sun continued to bake the entire landscape at a consistent 102 degrees.
- Foolishly I brought my sandals to the arena where the bands are today in a misguided hope that the sun would bake the mud dry… oh no no no.
- I could feel the wind blowing through my hair and the setting sun softly bake my skin a golden brown.
- Eggs laid by the locusts in holes drilled into the dry, baked earth would need rain to survive, he said, but if they did they would hatch in October and be swarming by November.
Synonyms scorch, burn, sear, parch, dry (up), desiccate, wither, shrivel, fire North American broil - 2.1informal no object Be or become extremely hot in prolonged sun or hot weather.
the city was baking in a heatwave Example sentencesExamples - He recalled putting his gas mask on 14 times the previous day, which meant spending about six or seven hours baking in 35C heat in a mask.
- I saw other storks in Cordoba, Spain, baking in the 116 degree heat on the top of a statue.
- And unusual weather takes the fun out of summer, as many people bake in the worst heat wave in years.
- We had been in the Gulf for several months, baking in the summer heat.
- Why is it that when the first peek of sun appears, people scramble wildly to de-robe themselves and bake their white flesh to a nice shade of ruby?
- We sat in bunkers, baking in the heat, hoping the next one didn't carry the bug.
- The hot weather is baking the already miserable townspeople, and the summer that used to be for sunbathing and holidays is now given to the plague.
- He recalled that day vividly, the warmth on his cheek, the smell of the fish he had caught, baking in heat, as they lay on the floor of his boat.
- The ground baked hard that summer and we felt no compassion for anyone but ourselves.
- Each cell receives a slow trickle of swamp cooled air which does little to alleviate our suffering in the summer months when we feel like we are being baked alive.
- Out on the sidewalk patio, Mantra's inviting overstuffed wing chairs baked in the heat.
- If it was where our Sun is, we would be baking in heat 700 times hotter than we suffer today.
- Yorkshire's tourist attractions experienced mixed fortunes last year as the country baked in the scorching summer weather.
- The BSE crisis came on top of a poor crop production year in 2003 as most of western Canada baked under a summer-long heat wave.
- It will be remembered as the summer that Britain baked - but according to a new study, the heatwave of 2003 was no act of God.
- Summer had faded into fall, but even as September wore on Paris still baked under a strange late heat wave that showed no sign of letting up.
- Floods in some streets created impromptu swimming pools for many Iraqis baking in the relentless heat.
- I asked for urgent remedial action to be taken before the weather warmed up and the ruts got baked solid.
- The earth bakes under the late summer sun, battered by the sudden violence of summer storms.
- He didn't know why she insisted on baking in the summer, anyway.
Synonyms hot, stifling, suffocating, humid, steamy, sultry, sticky, muggy, close, stuffy, airless, oppressive, tropical, torrid, burning, searing, parching, like an oven, like a turkish bath, jungle-like
noun beɪkbeɪk British 1with modifier A dish consisting of a mixture of ingredients cooked in an oven. Example sentencesExamples - With dishes such as Spanish quiche, lamb and potato mousaka, pasta bakes, home-made bread and daily fruit and salad bars, 75 per cent of the menu is freshly prepared on site.
- Originally a ‘journey bake,’ cooked especially so that it will remain edible on a long journey.
- She then ran into the kitchen to grab the potato bake she had prepared earlier that day (in case she decided to go), grabbed her keys and ran out of her apartment.
- Instead I opted for a vegetable pasta bake concoction which came with two vegetables of your choice.
- To date they have made paella, pasta bake, and fishcakes.
- Typical products affected by the alert are shepherd's pies, pasta bakes, cottage pies, chicken wings, sausage casseroles, pizzas, steak and kidney pies and chilli con carne.
- Ann was highly delighted with her choice of vegetable and pasta bake topped with cheese and tastefully garnished at £4.99.
- But - and here's where my life has moved on since my youth - watching the game was accompanied with a vegetable pasta bake and red wine.
- Cheese and spinach cannelloni with salad or pasta bake and garlic bread.
- The new menu also includes a variety of soups, salads, appetisers, pasta and bakes and of course, all those pizzas.
- I returned to bed for two hours, and then eventually went to Wetherspoons where I had two glasses of Perrier and a Mediterranean vegetable pasta bake and treacle sponge.
- Len's wife Maggie serves up a very tasty pasta and chicken bake with jacket potatoes.
- They started getting tired, so we went inside and ate the tuna pasta bake i made.
- This is the second time in a few weeks that a similar scenario has ensued in different circumstances and I am rather tired of eating overpriced pasta bake and being made to feel that being veggie is a nuisance.
- I bought canned tuna instead and took it home to do a pasta bake, which sat in the pan until Paul left the office and came around to eat.
- When he arrived he had decided to make a root vegetable bake from his new tiny vegetarian cookbook (as we are his newest group of friends and we are all vegetarians he is dipping his toe into our world of eating).
- I am serving them with a complement dish of cauliflower and broccoli bake and a nice cold glass of wine or beer.
- In the south, pasta bakes tend to be more tomato-based, like the Abruzzi dish with lamb or the famous timballo described so eloquently in Giuseppe di Lampedusa's novel The Leopard.
- I think about that, and I think about being subjected to that while ordering a nice cauliflower bake at a restaurant and I just get sick.
- Had a lovely tea with Major and Mini Kira the other night, we are all very skint indeed but thank the lord for pasta bake and chicken nuggets!
- 1.1North American with modifier A social gathering at which baked food of a specified kind is eaten.
Example sentencesExamples - The man and I went to his family's place for a crab bake.
- Limited tickets are still available for the steak and shrimp bake.
- Included in your registration is a harbor cruise and lobster bake.
- The Willimantic Elks Club sponsors its annual lobster bake Aug. 25 starting at 5:30 p.m.
- You might expect your New England Guide to have a lobster bake wedding.
- To let that gift keep on giving, we could have a Maryland style crab bake for the prisoners at Gitmo.
- The New Auburn Senior Citizens will have a lobster bake at noon on Sept. 19 in the St. Louis Church Hall basement.
- The lobster bake, much more than a dish or even a feast, embodies a day filled with the wonders of water, fire, food, family and friends.
- The Creekside Church Young Marrieds Ministry is celebrating the end of summer with a beach crab bake Saturday.
- The lobster bake was clearly a coming-out party for Allen.
- You've never been to a crab bake?!?
- This crab bake is a year tradition for them (although this is the first year I've gone) and this year they had a pig roasting on a spit.
- Similarly, should your crab bake be set upon by agents of a foreign government, these crackers would make a handy boomerang at some range.
- Make your next corporate or private event a traditional New England lobster bake on the lawn of the East Bay Grille overlooking the Plymouth harbor.
- Becker was at the annual Kirkland Rotary salmon bake.
Synonyms social gathering, gathering, social occasion, social event, social function, function, get-together, celebration, reunion, festivity, jamboree, reception, at-home, soirée, social
Phrases informal Inevitable or unchangeable as a result of previous actions or events. look out for the next big tax—it is pretty much baked in the cake now Example sentencesExamples - Fiscal and monetary policy are more or less baked in the cake for 2004.
- Modern legal concepts were 'baked in the cake,' so to speak.
- Even if the monthly data for November and December look good, a weak GDP showing is already baked in the cake.
- A quarter point rate hike is baked in the cake.
- The deal appeared to be baked in the cake until the meddlers at a New York fund launched a counter offer.
- Traders say the Friday vote was baked in the cake.
- Runaway inflation is already baked in the cake, and protecting your assets from devaluation should be your number one priority.
- If you go for fiscal tightening, which is kind of baked in the cake, tax increases are coming and coming soon, then you risk actually choking off such recovery as there is.
- Counterproductive tax hikes are already baked in the cake.
- Higher prices for goods and services are already "baked in the cake" and will show up on the retail level well before 2010.
Phrasal Verbs Incorporate something as an integral part of a product, service, or system. we have baked in XML web services as part of the core of our platform the company continues to place a heavy emphasis on baked-in security Example sentencesExamples - It combines an LED flat panel television set with built-in speakers, a baked-in Internet connection, and a combination CD/DVD/Blu-ray player.
- Storage companies are baking in their best levels of availability.
- DLNA support comes baked in, allowing you to wirelessly throw your music, photos, and videos to other DLNA-compatible devices in your home.
- It's not merely convention, it's baked-in.
- Is this just the baked-in stubbornness of one man?
- Other media executives who use cloud computing have told me they baked in similar protections into their contracts.
- We’re learning that Microsoft’s newest mobile OS has similar functionality baked in.
- You want to use international settings on your development system so that you remember to bake in the code that adjusts for all these things.
- All the innovations we previously bolted on will have become baked in: just part of the way things are.
- So why bake in all that complexity?
- This differentiation between "bolt-on" usability and "baked-in" usability you keep mentioning does not exist.
- The assumption is that technology is baked in there.
- And when Michael started importing some sites himself, he found about 10 bugs I had baked in by mistake.
Origin Old English bacan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bakken and German backen. Rhymes ache, awake, betake, Blake, brake, break, cake, crake, drake, fake, flake, forsake, hake, Jake, lake, make, mistake, opaque, partake, quake, rake, sake, shake, sheikh, slake, snake, splake, stake, steak, strake, take, undertake, wake, wideawake nounbeɪkbeɪk Northern Irish informal 1A person's mouth. Example sentencesExamples - This is dangerous territory where even an encouraging smile can earn you a slap in the bake.
- He's been belted around the bake with a tennis bat once too often.
- Sit down an' close your bake.
- Help us raise lots of money for our three hospices or I'll slap the bake off ye!
- He stuffs another calorific mouthful into his ever-gawping bucket bake.
- He will agree to shut his bake for, say, a year, and back the party.
- Shut your bake Mark, and quit gawping!
- He opens his silver-spooned bake and suddenly it seems that the world all earn just under or over £44K.
- He should have sacked her the minute she opened her bake.
- If in doubt, just shut your bake and open your ears.
- 1.1 A person's face.
my oul bake is in every major newspaper Example sentencesExamples - In the highly unlikely event of being offered TV work now, I would decline rather than inflict my wrinkly bake on viewers.
- I'll be strutting about with a proper smile on my bake.
- She's tried to force his hand and ended up with a metaphorical slap in the bake.
- Nowadays, it's a case of get your bake on the television, make a complete clown of yourself, and then milk your 15 minutes of fame for as much as you can get.
- The oul' grumpy bake has plenty of cash to throw about.
- You don't have to put up with that less-than-flattering snap of your bake going on public display ad infinitum.
- He got a dig in the bake from an errant ball at the start of the game.
- Who will triumph in teetering stilettos and who will fall flat on her fake-tanned bake?
- I know what you're thinking when you see my oul' bake.
Origin 1920s: representing a pronunciation of beak1. verbbeɪkbāk [with object]1Cook (food) by dry heat without direct exposure to a flame, typically in an oven or on a hot surface. they bake their own bread and cakes with two objects I baked him a cake for his birthday Example sentencesExamples - The kitchen faces part of the restaurant and I was encouraged to see that they had installed a wood-fired oven for baking pizzas.
- She had put up a table for the presents, put balloons and streamers everywhere and helped the cook bake her own cake.
- Some examples of healthy comfort food include baked sweet potatoes, minestrone soup or sauteed vegetables over rice.
- Hop Sing served roast beef, new potatoes in gravy, fresh baked bread, and apples in a glazed cinnamon sauce.
- A conventional gas or electric oven bakes bread with a lot of hot air, or convection.
- We cook, bake bread, make cheese, sew, make soap and candles, and milk goats.
- Together we discovered a sack of flour, mixed it with water, started the ovens and baked flat breads.
- The old ovens are wood-fired and bake beautiful bread.
- The advantage lies in the fact that microwave oven bakes the moist ingredients about three times faster.
- Lorna served a thick meat-filled stew, with fresh baked bread and warm apple pie for dessert.
- But it wasn't until my mother baked Apple Pye that the king deigned to visit.
- My mother cooked everything and baked our cakes.
- While baking the cake we cooked the fish and chips and ate the food as it was gradually cooked while talking about terrible plane incidents on QANTAS airlines.
- I'm also pretty good at English puddings: I like cooking baked apples, crème brûlée and rice pudding.
- She entered the kitchen to the enticing smell of beef stew, newly baked bread, and apple pie.
- To distract myself from the wait for Elle to deliver, I had cooked them the same fruited breads and baked sausages that I served the soldiers.
- She loves us a lot and cooks lovely dinners and bakes nice buns and tarts.
- Stuffing it into her mouth, she grunted and let the cook get on with baking the bread.
- Fan-assisted ovens and baking bread simply don't go together.
- Line the tart with foil, fill with baking beans and cook for 10 min.
Synonyms cook, oven-bake, dry-roast, roast, spit-roast, pot-roast - 1.1no object (of food) be cooked by baking.
the bread was baking on hot stones Example sentencesExamples - While apples are baking, place remaining sugar and spices into the sauce pan, ensuring it's well mixed.
- While pie is baking, mix the topping ingredients, first the butter and brown sugar until crumbly, then blending in the nuts.
- This version is particularly easy to make, because the fish is placed raw in a baking dish and covered with the boiling sauce, before being baked in the oven for a few minutes.
- It may not look special, but it is special: the sauce is fresh, the cheese is real, the crust is baked in a wood-burning oven.
- I guess we should just go up to her while our cake is baking and tell her just how we feel.
- Soda bread or cakes were baked in the pot oven over the dying embers of the fire and covered with a few sods of burning turf.
- It was, of course, understood that the factory was being built as a bakery making specialist breads and that these breads would be baked in ovens.
- While cake is baking, make the icing by mixing together cream cheese, creme fraiche, butter, vanilla, sugar and walnuts.
- Cookies will bake more evenly if they spend equal time on the top and bottom racks of the oven.
- After the bread was baked, ovens could have been utilised for a range of dishes that needed long, slow cooking.
- When the cake has baked, take it out and invert onto a sugared baking sheet.
- While the squash is baking, place 1/4 cup of olive oil into your soup pot that has been placed over medium heat.
- While the pie was baking, she removed some vegetables and meat from the icebox to prepare for dinner.
- The pizzas were freshly baked in a brick oven and tasted absolutely fantastic.
- All the pizzas are freshly baked in the downstairs oven which can be seen by diners and passers-by alike.
- Originally, the biscuits were baked in large industrial ovens, but the recipe has been altered so that one can bake them in a domestic oven.
- To help keep larger cuts of meat from drying out while broiling, grilling or baking, sear them first.
- This can be made ahead, then reheated while the biscuits or corn bread are baking.
- Once the cookies were baking, we took a break, and walked into the living room.
- The bread is baked in a wood-fired oven, which takes two weeks to reach temperature.
Synonyms brown, crisp, crisp up, grill, barbecue, singe, sear
2(of the sun or other agency) subject (something) to dry heat, especially so as to harden it. the sun has baked the earth a dusty brown Example sentencesExamples - And the sun will bake the soil and the plants and the rains will not come every day.
- Muscles on his upper arms glistened as the hot sun of the afternoon baked its way across the open pasture.
- When the mud gets baked by the sun, spreading cracks curve around the weakened edge of this column and so bypass the insect.
- Some napped in the shade, while others stripped off shirts and trousers to reveal swim suits so that they could soak in the last baking rays of the sun.
- At dusk tonight, somewhere in Afghanistan's blasted and baked mountains and deserts, a small group of men will face the setting sun and kneel.
- The busy streets of Los Angeles were swept away by the unusual heat wave baking the city.
- Foolishly I brought my sandals to the arena where the bands are today in a misguided hope that the sun would bake the mud dry… oh no no no.
- Like thin air shimmering when powerful heat bakes it, he continued his waiting.
- The blazing hot sun continued to bake the entire landscape at a consistent 102 degrees.
- It is warming up, and the sun is baking the buildings across the street from my window, outlining crisp shadows under every single brick.
- Eggs laid by the locusts in holes drilled into the dry, baked earth would need rain to survive, he said, but if they did they would hatch in October and be swarming by November.
- The dry air baked their lips and forced them to crack.
- It may be the only place that offers a safe haven for you during the daylight hours when the angry eye of the sun will bake your flesh.
- They were battered by gales, and baked by the sun.
- The sun was baking her skin, turning it a nice golden brown.
- The early afternoon sun was now baking my tired body as I cruised the rolling downhills listening to my IPod.
- At first, as he says his anti-war position ‘arises from a vision that views the world holistically,’ the audience listens listlessly as the heat bakes the yard.
- I could feel the wind blowing through my hair and the setting sun softly bake my skin a golden brown.
- Instead of finding their way to the sea, they will scuttle along the full length of the man-made trap until the sun rises, baking them alive.
- The primer surface is then baked at high heat to get a reasonably secure mechanical grip.
Synonyms scorch, burn, sear, parch, dry, dry up, desiccate, wither, shrivel, fire - 2.1informal no object (of a person or place) be or become extremely hot in prolonged sun or hot weather.
the city was baking in a heat wave Example sentencesExamples - We had been in the Gulf for several months, baking in the summer heat.
- I asked for urgent remedial action to be taken before the weather warmed up and the ruts got baked solid.
- And unusual weather takes the fun out of summer, as many people bake in the worst heat wave in years.
- The ground baked hard that summer and we felt no compassion for anyone but ourselves.
- Out on the sidewalk patio, Mantra's inviting overstuffed wing chairs baked in the heat.
- Each cell receives a slow trickle of swamp cooled air which does little to alleviate our suffering in the summer months when we feel like we are being baked alive.
- Why is it that when the first peek of sun appears, people scramble wildly to de-robe themselves and bake their white flesh to a nice shade of ruby?
- It will be remembered as the summer that Britain baked - but according to a new study, the heatwave of 2003 was no act of God.
- The hot weather is baking the already miserable townspeople, and the summer that used to be for sunbathing and holidays is now given to the plague.
- The BSE crisis came on top of a poor crop production year in 2003 as most of western Canada baked under a summer-long heat wave.
- He recalled putting his gas mask on 14 times the previous day, which meant spending about six or seven hours baking in 35C heat in a mask.
- The earth bakes under the late summer sun, battered by the sudden violence of summer storms.
- Floods in some streets created impromptu swimming pools for many Iraqis baking in the relentless heat.
- He didn't know why she insisted on baking in the summer, anyway.
- We sat in bunkers, baking in the heat, hoping the next one didn't carry the bug.
- Summer had faded into fall, but even as September wore on Paris still baked under a strange late heat wave that showed no sign of letting up.
- He recalled that day vividly, the warmth on his cheek, the smell of the fish he had caught, baking in heat, as they lay on the floor of his boat.
- If it was where our Sun is, we would be baking in heat 700 times hotter than we suffer today.
- I saw other storks in Cordoba, Spain, baking in the 116 degree heat on the top of a statue.
- Yorkshire's tourist attractions experienced mixed fortunes last year as the country baked in the scorching summer weather.
Synonyms hot, stifling, suffocating, humid, steamy, sultry, sticky, muggy, close, stuffy, airless, oppressive, tropical, torrid, burning, searing, parching, like an oven, like a turkish bath, jungle-like
nounbeɪkbāk North American with modifier A social gathering at which baked food is eaten. lobster bakes on deserted islands Example sentencesExamples - You've never been to a crab bake?!?
- You might expect your New England Guide to have a lobster bake wedding.
- Similarly, should your crab bake be set upon by agents of a foreign government, these crackers would make a handy boomerang at some range.
- The Willimantic Elks Club sponsors its annual lobster bake Aug. 25 starting at 5:30 p.m.
- Make your next corporate or private event a traditional New England lobster bake on the lawn of the East Bay Grille overlooking the Plymouth harbor.
- The man and I went to his family's place for a crab bake.
- Limited tickets are still available for the steak and shrimp bake.
- Included in your registration is a harbor cruise and lobster bake.
- This crab bake is a year tradition for them (although this is the first year I've gone) and this year they had a pig roasting on a spit.
- The New Auburn Senior Citizens will have a lobster bake at noon on Sept. 19 in the St. Louis Church Hall basement.
- The lobster bake, much more than a dish or even a feast, embodies a day filled with the wonders of water, fire, food, family and friends.
- To let that gift keep on giving, we could have a Maryland style crab bake for the prisoners at Gitmo.
- Becker was at the annual Kirkland Rotary salmon bake.
- The Creekside Church Young Marrieds Ministry is celebrating the end of summer with a beach crab bake Saturday.
- The lobster bake was clearly a coming-out party for Allen.
Synonyms social gathering, gathering, social occasion, social event, social function, function, get-together, celebration, reunion, festivity, jamboree, reception, at-home, soirée, social
Phrases informal Inevitable or unchangeable as a result of previous actions or events. look out for the next big tax—it is pretty much baked in the cake now Example sentencesExamples - Modern legal concepts were 'baked in the cake,' so to speak.
- Runaway inflation is already baked in the cake, and protecting your assets from devaluation should be your number one priority.
- Higher prices for goods and services are already "baked in the cake" and will show up on the retail level well before 2010.
- If you go for fiscal tightening, which is kind of baked in the cake, tax increases are coming and coming soon, then you risk actually choking off such recovery as there is.
- Traders say the Friday vote was baked in the cake.
- Counterproductive tax hikes are already baked in the cake.
- Fiscal and monetary policy are more or less baked in the cake for 2004.
- A quarter point rate hike is baked in the cake.
- The deal appeared to be baked in the cake until the meddlers at a New York fund launched a counter offer.
- Even if the monthly data for November and December look good, a weak GDP showing is already baked in the cake.
Phrasal Verbs Incorporate something as an integral part of a product, service, or system. we have baked in XML web services as part of the core of our platform the company continues to place a heavy emphasis on baked-in security Example sentencesExamples - All the innovations we previously bolted on will have become baked in: just part of the way things are.
- Storage companies are baking in their best levels of availability.
- Is this just the baked-in stubbornness of one man?
- Other media executives who use cloud computing have told me they baked in similar protections into their contracts.
- The assumption is that technology is baked in there.
- So why bake in all that complexity?
- It's not merely convention, it's baked-in.
- And when Michael started importing some sites himself, he found about 10 bugs I had baked in by mistake.
- We’re learning that Microsoft’s newest mobile OS has similar functionality baked in.
- You want to use international settings on your development system so that you remember to bake in the code that adjusts for all these things.
- This differentiation between "bolt-on" usability and "baked-in" usability you keep mentioning does not exist.
- DLNA support comes baked in, allowing you to wirelessly throw your music, photos, and videos to other DLNA-compatible devices in your home.
- It combines an LED flat panel television set with built-in speakers, a baked-in Internet connection, and a combination CD/DVD/Blu-ray player.
Origin Old English bacan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bakken and German backen. nounbeɪkbāk Northern Irish informal 1A person's mouth. Example sentencesExamples - Sit down an' close your bake.
- He stuffs another calorific mouthful into his ever-gawping bucket bake.
- Shut your bake Mark, and quit gawping!
- He opens his silver-spooned bake and suddenly it seems that the world all earn just under or over £44K.
- He will agree to shut his bake for, say, a year, and back the party.
- This is dangerous territory where even an encouraging smile can earn you a slap in the bake.
- He should have sacked her the minute she opened her bake.
- Help us raise lots of money for our three hospices or I'll slap the bake off ye!
- If in doubt, just shut your bake and open your ears.
- He's been belted around the bake with a tennis bat once too often.
- 1.1 A person's face.
my oul bake is in every major newspaper Example sentencesExamples - I know what you're thinking when you see my oul' bake.
- She's tried to force his hand and ended up with a metaphorical slap in the bake.
- Nowadays, it's a case of get your bake on the television, make a complete clown of yourself, and then milk your 15 minutes of fame for as much as you can get.
- You don't have to put up with that less-than-flattering snap of your bake going on public display ad infinitum.
- Who will triumph in teetering stilettos and who will fall flat on her fake-tanned bake?
- In the highly unlikely event of being offered TV work now, I would decline rather than inflict my wrinkly bake on viewers.
- He got a dig in the bake from an errant ball at the start of the game.
- I'll be strutting about with a proper smile on my bake.
- The oul' grumpy bake has plenty of cash to throw about.
Origin 1920s: representing a pronunciation of beak. |