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bakes Meaning & Definition

/beɪks/

What Does Bakes Mean?

Bakes is a verb that means third-person singular simple present indicative of bake. As a noun, it means plural of bake. As a noun, it means The act of cooking food by baking.

Bakes Definition (Verb)

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bake

Bakes as a Noun

  1. plural of bake

Noun

  1. The act of cooking food by baking.
  2. Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
  3. A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
  4. (Barbadian, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten in Barbados and sometimes elsewhere, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or in some places sometimes roasted).
  5. Any item that is baked.

Verb

  1. (with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven.

    I baked a delicious cherry pie.

  2. (with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.

    The cake baked at 350°F.

  3. To be warmed to drying and hardening.

    The clay baked in the sun.

  4. To dry by heat.

    They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.

  5. To be hot.

    I'm baking after that workout in the gym.

  6. To cause to be hot.
  7. To smoke marijuana.
  8. To harden by cold.
  9. To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
  10. (with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.

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Bakes in a Sentence

I baked a delicious cherry pie.

The cake baked at 350°F.

The clay baked in the sun.

They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.

I'm baking after that workout in the gym.

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