<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones</li><li>to harden by heat: to bake pottery in a kiln</li><li>to dry by, or subject to heat: The sun baked the land</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to bake bread, a casserole, etc.</li><li>to become baked: The cake will bake in about half an hour</li><li>to be subjected to heat: The lizard baked on the hot rocks</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a social occasion at which the chief food is baked</li><li>Scot. cracker (def 1)</li></ul><p><strong>Verb phrase</strong></p><ul><li>to incorporate (a feature) as part of a system or piece of software or hardware while it is still in development: The location-tracking service is baked in the new app</li><li>Security features come baked into the operating system</li><li>to include as an inseparable or permanent part: Baked into the price of the product is the cost of advertising</li></ul>