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4-letter words (2 found)

BAKE,BEAK,

3-letter words (6 found)

AKE,BAE,KAB,KAE,KEA,KEB,

2-letter words (6 found)

AB,AE,BA,BE,EA,KA,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 15 words from bake according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of bake

bake abke bkae kbae akbe kabe baek abek beak ebak aebk eabk bkea kbea beka ebka keba ekba akeb kaeb aekb eakb keab ekab

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Definitions and meaning of bake

bake

Etymology

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”).

Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Norwegian Bokmål bake (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “roast”, verb).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /beɪk/
  • Rhymes: -eɪk

Verb

bake (third-person singular simple present bakes, present participle baking, simple past baked or (dialectal) book, past participle baked or (dialectal) baken)

  1. (transitive or intransitive or ditransitive, with person as subject) 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.
    He baked her a cake.
  2. (intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
    The cake baked at 350°F.
  3. (intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.
    The clay baked in the sun.
  4. (transitive) To dry by heat.
    They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.
  5. (intransitive, figuratively) To be hot.
    It is baking in the greenhouse.
    I'm baking after that workout in the gym.
  6. (transitive, figuratively) To cause to be hot.
  7. (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
  8. (transitive, obsolete) To harden by cold.
  9. (computer graphics, transitive) To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
  10. (figurative, with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.

Usage notes

In the dialects of northern England, the simple past book and past participle baken are sometimes encountered.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:cook

Derived terms

Related terms

  • roast

Translations

Noun

bake (plural bakes)

  1. The act of cooking food by baking.
  2. (especially UK, Australia, New Zealand) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
  3. Any food item that is baked.
  4. (US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
  5. (Barbados, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten in Barbados and sometimes elsewhere, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or in some places sometimes roasted).
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:bake.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • Baek, beak, beka

Basque

Etymology

From Latin pācem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bake/ [ba.ke]
  • Rhymes: -ake
  • Hyphenation: ba‧ke

Noun

bake inan

  1. peace
  2. tranquillity, serenity

Declension

Derived terms

Verb

bake

  1. Short form of baketu (“to pacify”).

Further reading

  • "bake" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
  • “bake” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

bake (plural bakes)

  1. Alternative form of bakke (“bat”)

Etymology 2

Verb

bake

  1. Alternative form of baken (“to bake”)

Etymology 3

Noun

bake

  1. Alternative form of baken (“meal involving pastry”)

Etymology 4

Noun

bake

  1. Alternative form of bak

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse baka.

Verb

bake (imperative bak, present tense baker, passive bakes, simple past bakte, past participle bakt)

  1. to bake (something)

Derived terms

  • bakebolle
  • bakepapir
  • bakepulver

Related terms

  • baker (noun)
  • baking

References

  • “bake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

bake (present tense bakar or baker, past tense baka or bakte, past participle baka or bakt, passive infinitive bakast, present participle bakande, imperative bak)

  1. e-infinitive form of baka

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

bake (Cyrillic spelling баке)

  1. inflection of baka:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Wolio

Etymology

Cognate with Laiyolo bake.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɓake/

Noun

bake

  1. heart
  2. fruit

References

  • Anceaux, Johannes C. (1987) Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia), Dordrecht: Foris

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