bake: Meaning and Definition of

bake

1. to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.
2. to harden by heat: to bake pottery in a kiln.
3. to dry by, or subject to heat: The sun baked the land.

1. to bake bread, a casserole, etc.
2. to become baked: The cake will bake in about half an hour.
3. to be subjected to heat: The lizard baked on the hot rocks.

1. a social occasion at which the chief food is baked.
2. cracker (def. 1).