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BAKE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven

Example:

bake the potatoes

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "bake" is one way to...):

cook (transform and make suitable for consumption by heating)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bake"):

ovenbake (bake in an oven)

fire (bake in a kiln so as to harden)

shirr (bake (eggs) in their shells until they are set)

Sentence frames:

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Sentence example:

The chefs bake the vegetables

Derivation:

baking (cooking by dry heat in an oven)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Heat by a natural force

Example:

The sun broils the valley in the summer

Synonyms:

bake; broil

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "bake" is one way to...):

heat; heat up (make hot or hotter)

Sentence frames:

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Sense 3

Meaning:

Prepare with dry heat in an oven

Example:

bake a cake

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "bake" is one way to...):

create from raw material; create from raw stuff (make from scratch)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

baker (someone who bakes bread or cake)

baker (someone who bakes commercially)

baking (making bread or cake or pastry etc.)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Example:

the tourists were baking in the heat

Synonyms:

bake; broil

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "bake" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frames:

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Credits

 Context examples: 

Soon the sand was baking and the resin melting in the logs of the block house.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

When you see Hordle once more, there will be no penny ale and fat bacon, but Gascon wines and baked meats every day of the seven.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Most cleansing solutions contain water mixed with vinegar, baking soda, or iodine.

(Douche, NCI Dictionary)

But the formation of thunderstorms at night, when the sun is not baking the land, is less well understood.

(Scientists tackle mystery of thunderstorms that strike at night, NSF)

Trans fatty acids, or trans fats, are commonly found in fried foods, chips, crackers and baked goods.

(Trans Fat Bans Lessen Health Risks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I have myself directed some attention, during the past week, to the art of baking; and my son Wilkins has issued forth with a walking-stick and driven cattle, when permitted, by the rugged hirelings who had them in charge, to render any voluntary service in that direction—which I regret to say, for the credit of our nature, was not often; he being generally warned, with imprecations, to desist.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Astonishingly, three-toed sloths, which are more specialized to their environment, expend as little as 460 kilojoules of energy a day, the equivalent of burning a mere 110 calories — roughly the same number of calories in a baked potato.

(Putting the sloth in sloths: Arboreal lifestyle drives slow pace, NSF)

Diana, as she passed in and out, in the course of preparing tea, brought me a little cake, baked on the top of the oven.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“We will bake first,” said the old woman, “I have already heated the oven, and kneaded the dough.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Not that I had any doubt before—I have so often heard Mr. Woodhouse recommend a baked apple.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)