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bake

[beyk]

verb (used with object)

baked, baking 
  1. to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.

  2. to harden by heat.

    to bake pottery in a kiln.

  3. to dry by, or subject to heat.

    The sun baked the land.



verb (used without object)

baked, baking 
  1. to bake bread, a casserole, etc.

  2. to become baked.

    The cake will bake in about half an hour.

  3. to be subjected to heat.

    The lizard baked on the hot rocks.

noun

  1. a social occasion at which the chief food is baked.

  2. Scot.Ģżcracker.

verb phrase

    1. ComputersĢżto 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.

    2. to include as an inseparable or permanent part.

      Baked into the price of the product is the cost of advertising.

bake

/ ²ś±šÉŖ°ģ /

verb

  1. (tr) to cook by dry heat in or as if in an oven

  2. (intr) to cook bread, pastry, etc, in an oven

  3. to make or become hardened by heat

  4. informalĢż(intr) to be extremely hot, as in the heat of the sun

ā€œCollins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridgedā€ 2012 Digital Edition Ā© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 Ā© HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a party at which the main dish is baked

  2. a batch of things baked at one time

  3. a kind of biscuit

  4. a small flat fried cake

ā€œCollins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridgedā€ 2012 Digital Edition Ā© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 Ā© HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms

  • outbake verb (used with object)
  • overbake verb
  • prebake verb
  • rebake verb (used with object)
  • unbaked adjective
  • underbake verb (used with object)
  • well-baked adjective
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of bake1

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 ±č³óṓg±š¾±²Ō ā€œto roastā€; from Proto-Indo-European extended root bhēg-, bhōg- ā€œto warm, roastā€
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of bake1

Old English bacan ; related to Old Norse baka , Old High German bahhan to bake, Greek ±č³óō²µ±š¾±²Ō to parch, roast
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If that message is tough for some people to absorb, consider the pie mythologizing that’s been baked into our national story.

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But trying to inauthentically manage the situation and making things look overly staged could backfire and the "narrative of a feud will become permanently baked in".

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Parmesan-crusted zucchini spears were enjoyed with baked salmon and a creamy mushroom risotto.

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The latest GDP figures underline the baked in sluggishness, the flatlining, even the shrivelling of the economy.

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It had a similar deal with France's Paris St Germaine for two seasons, providing fans with its baked products and desserts on match days of home games.

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