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# bake

«bake» in Mova's school dictionary: **to cook food in an oven with dry heat, like bread, cakes…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (bake, bakes, baked, baking); noun (a bake)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To bake is to cook food in an oven with dry heat, like bread, cakes or cookies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#m1)

2) To bake is to make something hard by heat, like clay or bricks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#m2)

3) To bake can mean to be very hot: «We're baking in the sun». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

making things that are counted, often in batches or trays; times in minutes; in cooking class, following a recipe; phrases «bake sale», «bake off», «bake at 180 degrees»

### examples

- Mom bakes 24 cookies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#x1)
- She bakes 3 trays with 12 muffins each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#x2)
- It takes 20 minutes to bake a cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#x3)
- How many pies can he bake with 9 apples? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#x4)
- Let's bake bread this weekend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#x5)
- Bake the cake at 180 degrees for 30 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#x6)
- Our class had a bake sale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#x7)
- The bricks are baked in a kiln. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#x8)
- We were baking on the hot beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#x9)
- Ask an adult before you use the oven to bake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/#x10)

### note

Baking makes more things: add or multiply by batches. Trap: baking time per tray stays the same, and trays baked at the same time do not add time. Safety: use oven gloves; hot trays burn.

### In the corpora

- [Baked beans are usually haricot beans, which first came from the Americas.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/11/)
- [Blueberries hold the same kind of colour, which is why blueberry pancakes with too much baking soda get green streaks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow/4/)
- [Tea's colour substances change in acid: lemon makes tea paler, and baking soda makes it darker.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow/13/)
- [Raw egg and raw flour can carry germs, so cookie dough and cake batter should be baked before eating.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking/16/)
- [A lemonade stand or bake sale is run with an adult's help, with clean hands and clear prices.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/264-routines-screens-and-earning/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bake» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bake/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.