verb

• (transitive or intransitive or ditransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
  "I baked a delicious cherry pie."
• (intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
  "The cake baked at 350°F."
• (intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.
  "The clay baked in the sun."
• (transitive) To dry by heat.
  "They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture."

noun

• (especially UK, Australia, New Zealand) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
  "A fish bake made with cod chunks, sliced parboiled potatoes, […]"
• (US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
  "The central episode is the temporary burial of the novitiate; a shallow pit is excavated, and in this a fire is made, as for a fish bake; […]"
• (Barbados, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten mainly in Barbados, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or sometimes roasted).
  "For quotations using this term, see Citations:bake."