bake

English

/beɪk/

verb
Definitions
  • (ditransitive) To cook (something) in an oven.
  • (intransitive) To be cooked in an oven.
  • (intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.
  • (transitive) To dry by heat.
  • (intransitive) To be hot.
  • (transitive) To cause to be hot.
  • (intransitive) To smoke marijuana.
  • (transitive) To harden by cold.
  • (computer graphics) To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
  • (figurative) To incorporate into something greater.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English baken inherited from Old English bacan (bake) inherited from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (bake) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- (bake, roast), *bʰeh₃g- (bake, roast).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*bʰeh₃g-

Gloss

bake, roast

Concept
Semantic Field

Food and drink

Ontological Category

Action/Process

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