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Bake: Meaning, Usage, and Examples (2 meaning)

Meaning 1：oven-bake (Bake)

Bake 🔊

/beɪk/

To cook food like bread or cake in an oven using dry heat.

Bake golden bread loaf taken from oven in warm kitchen

oven-bake 🔊

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/ˈʌvən beɪk/

To cook food, such as bread or cake, using dry heat in an enclosed space like an oven.

📁 Category：Diet & Health 🔖 Level：Beginner

📘 Details & Usage

📖 Root Explanation

From Old English 'bacan', meaning to cook by dry heat. Related to German 'backen'.

💡 Mnemonic

Think: 'B' for bread + 'ake' like 'make' → you make bread by baking.

📖 Example

My mom loves to bake chocolate chip cookies for us on weekends. 🔊 My mom loves to bake chocolate chip cookies for us on weekends.

🔗 Collocations

bake a cake – bake a cake

bake bread – bake bread

bake cookies – bake cookies

🔄 Synonyms

roast (v.) – To cook food with dry heat, especially meat or vegetables, often in an oven.

cook (v.) – To prepare food using heat, a general term that includes baking.

🚫 Antonyms

freeze (v.) – To preserve food by lowering its temperature below freezing point.

cool (v.) – To lower the temperature of something, opposite of heating.

🌱 Derivatives

baker (n.) – A person who bakes bread, cakes, or pasties as a profession.

bakery (n.) – A shop or place where bread and cakes are baked or sold.

baking (n./adj.) – The act of cooking food in an oven; very hot.

📖 Cultural Story

Bake traces back to Old English 'bacan', shared across Germanic languages. For centuries, baking has been central to bread-making, evolving from hearths to modern ovens.

Meaning 2：sun-bake (Bake)

Bake 🔊

/beɪk/

To be very hot from the sun or heat, making you feel uncomfortable.

Bake under scorching sun seeking shade on beach

sun-bake 🔊

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/ˈsʌnbeɪk/

To become very hot, especially due to exposure to the sun or high temperatures, causing discomfort.

📁 Category：Physical & Mental Health 🔖 Level：Intermediate

📘 Details & Usage

📖 Example

We decided to go inside because we were starting to bake on the sandy beach. 🔊 We decided to go inside because we were starting to bake on the sandy beach.

🔗 Collocations

bake in the sun – bake in the sun

bake under the heat – bake under the heat

bake on the beach – bake on the beach

🔄 Synonyms

swelter (v.) – To suffer from extreme heat, often with sweating.

scorch (v.) – To become or cause to become very hot, often to the point of burning.

broil (v.) – To be exposed to strong, direct heat, like being cooked.

🚫 Antonyms

freeze (v.) – To become extremely cold, opposite of heating.

chill (v.) – To become cool or cold, often for comfort.

🌱 Derivatives

baker (n.) – A person who bakes (not typically used for this meaning).

bakery (n.) – A place where baking is done (not relevant to heat).

baking (adj.) – Extremely hot, as in 'baking heat'.