Meaning

11 senses
  1. To cook using an oven, especially baked goods.

    (ditransitive, intransitive, transitive)To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).

    I baked a delicious cherry pie.

    She's been baking all day to prepare for the dinner.

    cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven

  2. (intransitive)To be cooked in an oven.

    The cake baked at 350°F.

    prepare with dry heat in an oven

  3. (intransitive)To regularly prepare baked goods.

    In some cultures, it is expected that a proper housewife should bake.

    пе́чьсяpéčʹsja, испе́чьсяispéčʹsja

  4. (figuratively, intransitive, slang)To smoke marijuana.

    (Let's bake tonight.)

  5. (figuratively)To incorporate into something greater.

  6. To heat or dry.

    (intransitive)To be warmed for drying and hardening.

    The clay baked in the sun.

  7. (transitive)To dry by heat.

    They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.

    trocknen

    суши́тьsušítʹ, вы́сушитьvýsušitʹ

    heat by a natural force

  8. (figuratively, intransitive)To be hot.

    It is baking in the greenhouse.

    I'm baking after that workout in the gym.

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

  9. (figuratively, transitive)To cause to be hot.

  10. (transitive)To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.

  11. (broadly, obsolete, transitive)To harden by cold.

Examples

661 sentences
  1. I baked a loaf of bread.

    Я спік хлібину.

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  2. Here is the fish my mother baked.

    Ось риба, яку спекла моя мама.

    ruВот рыба, запечённая моей матерью.

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  3. Tom taught Mary how to bake bread.

    Том навчив Мері випікати хліб.

    ruТом научил Мэри печь хлеб.

    deTom hat Mary beigebracht, wie man Brot bäckt.

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  4. I'm getting ready to bake a cake.

    Я готуюся готувати пиріг.

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  5. Did you try the cake that Tom baked?

    Ти покуштував торт, який випік Том?

    ruТы пробовал пирог, который испек Том?

    deHast du den Kuchen probiert, den Tom gebacken hat?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to cook in an oven:
Русский
By meaning 3
to cook in an oven:
to become baked:
to dry by heat:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to cook in an oven:
to dry by heat:

Origin

From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *b

From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- (“to roast, bake”).

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Forms

bakes, baking, baked, baked
Base formbake · to bake
3rd person singularbakes
Present participlebaking
Past simplebaked
Past participlebaked

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybake
he, she, itbakes

Past simpleLesson

all personsbaked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave baked
he, she, ithas baked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bake

Phrasal verbs

4 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun:broil
  • heat by a natural force:broil

Word family

42 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • baked a cake
  • baked bread
  • baked some cookies
  • my mother baked
  • baked some
  • mother baked
  • baked cookies
  • baked this cake
  • freshly baked
  • bake sale
  • the bake sale
  • baked these cookies

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bake — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto