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 →

2) To bake is to make something hard by heat, like clay or bricks. tree →

3) To bake can mean to be very hot: «We're baking in the sun». tree →

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 →
• She bakes 3 trays with 12 muffins each. tree →
• It takes 20 minutes to bake a cake. tree →
• How many pies can he bake with 9 apples? tree →
• Let's bake bread this weekend. tree →
• Bake the cake at 180 degrees for 30 minutes. tree →
• Our class had a bake sale. tree →
• The bricks are baked in a kiln. tree →
• We were baking on the hot beach. tree →
• Ask an adult before you use the oven to bake. tree →

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.
• Blueberries hold the same kind of colour, which is why blueberry pancakes with too much baking soda get green streaks.
• Tea's colour substances change in acid: lemon makes tea paler, and baking soda makes it darker.
• Raw egg and raw flour can carry germs, so cookie dough and cake batter should be baked before eating.
• A lemonade stand or bake sale is run with an adult's help, with clean hands and clear prices.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bake» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.