bake /ˈbek/
 (vt.)烤,烘,焙;燒硬,焙乾(vi.)烤,烘,焙


 Bake v. t. [imp. & p. p. Baked p. pr. & vb. n. Baking.]
 1. To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.
 Note: ☞ Baking is the term usually applied to that method of cooking which exhausts the moisture in food more than roasting or broiling; but the distinction of meaning between roasting and baking is not always observed.
 2. To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
 3. To harden by cold.
    The earth . . . is baked with frost.   --Shak.
    They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone.   --Spenser.


 Bake, v. i.
 1. To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes.
 2. To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.


 Bake, n. The process, or result, of baking.

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 bake
      v 1: cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven; "bake the
           potatoes"
      2: prepare with dry heat in an oven; "bake a cake"
      3: heat by a natural force; "The sun broils the valley in the
         summer" [syn: broil]


 Bake
    The duty of preparing bread was usually, in ancient times,
    committed to the females or the slaves of the family (Gen. 18:6;
    Lev. 26:26; 1 Sam. 8:13); but at a later period we find a class
    of public bakers mentioned (Hos. 7:4, 6; Jer. 37:21).

      The bread was generally in the form of long or round cakes
    (Ex. 29:23; 1 Sam. 2:36), of a thinness that rendered them
    easily broken (Isa. 58:7; Matt. 14:19; 26:26; Acts 20:11).
    Common ovens were generally used; at other times a jar was
    half-filled with hot pebbles, and the dough was spread over
    them. Hence we read of "cakes baken on the coals" (1 Kings
    19:6), and "baken in the oven" (Lev. 2:4). (See BREAD.)