bake

To cook food in an oven using dry heat, or to cook this way.

• I bake bread every Sunday.
• The potatoes are baking in the oven.
• She baked a cake for his birthday.

How to use it: bake something at a temperature (Bake the potatoes at 200 degrees.); bake something for a period of time (Bake the cake for thirty minutes.)

Similar words: oven-cook

Common phrases: bake a cake, bake bread, bake in something

To regularly make bread, cakes, or similar foods as a job or activity.

• My father loves to bake.
• She bakes for the family every weekend.
• Did you learn to bake at school?

Common phrases: bake at home, bake for someone, learn to bake

To smoke cannabis.

• They went outside to bake.
• He used to bake with his friends after work.
• They stayed home and baked all evening.

Similar words: smoke weed

Common phrases: bake with someone, bake at home

A dish or other food cooked in an oven.

• We had a pasta bake for dinner.
• This vegetable bake is easy to prepare.
• Her bakery sells sweet and savoury bakes.

Similar words: baked dish

Common phrases: pasta bake, vegetable bake, potato bake

A social gathering where people cook or eat food prepared in an oven or over heat.

• We went to an oyster bake.
• The annual bake raises money for the school.
• Friends gathered on the beach for a clam bake.

Common phrases: oyster bake, clam bake, community bake