bake /bāk/

1. To dry, harden or cook by the heat of the sun or fire
2. To make or cook in an oven
3. To harden by cold (Shakespeare)
4. To cake (Shakespeare)

1. To cook or become firm through heat
2. (of persons, weather, etc) to be very hot (informal)
3. To work as a baker

1. A baking
2. A party at which the food is baked (N American)
3. A kind of biscuit (Scot)

bākˈer noun

1. A person who bakes or sells bread, etc
2. An artificial fly used in salmon-fishing

bākˈery noun

1. A bakehouse
2. A baker's shop

bākˈing adjective

Extremely hot

1. The process by which bread (or cake, etc) is baked
2. A quantity baked at one time

bakeˈapple noun (Can)

The fruit of the cloudberry

bakeˈboard noun (Scot)

A board for kneading dough on

baked Alaska noun

A pudding consisting of ice cream, and usu cake, covered with meringue, baked rapidly

baked beans plural noun

Beans boiled and baked, now generally applied to a variety tinned in tomato sauce

bakeˈhouse noun

A house or place used for baking in

bakeˈmeat noun (Bible)

Pastry, pies

bakeˈoff noun

1. A cake-making contest
2. (esp in the computer industry) a public test of several similar products in order to establish which one performs best

baker's dozen see dozen¹

bakeˈstone noun

A flat stone or plate of iron on which cakes are baked in the oven

bakeˈware noun

Heat-resistant dishes suitable for use in baking

baking powder noun

A mixture (eg tartaric acid and sodium bicarbonate) giving off carbon dioxide, used as a raising agent in baking

baking soda noun

Sodium bicarbonate

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