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baked 'beans {NAmE also .Boston baked ’beans) noun [pi.] small white beans cooked in a tomato sauce and usually sold in cans $£|itf && (     )

, baked po'tato (also jacket po'tato) noun a potato cooked in its skin in an oven (       a baked

potato and beans —

bake-house /'beikhaus/ noun (old-fashioned) a building or an area where bread is made Bake-life™ /'beikalait; NAmE also 'beikl-/ noun [U] a type of hard plastic used in the past for electrical equip­ment, etc. J&*

baker /'beika(r)/ noun 1 a person whose job is baking and selling bread and cakes ffife ( HI# ) jJipfll;

2 baker’s {pi. bakers) (BrE) a shop that sells bread and cakes    : I’m just going to the baker’s.

baker’s 'dozen noun [sing.] (old-fashioned) a group of thirteen (= one more than a dozen, which is twelve) -fr H    This phrase comes from bakers’ old custom

of adding one extra loaf to an order of a dozen. M i 10

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bakery /'beikari/ noun (pi ies) (NAmE also bake-shop) a place where bread and cakes are made and/or sold

'bake sale noun (NAmE) an event at which cakes, etc. are baked and sold to make money, usually for a school or charity    )

bake-shop /'beikjnp; NAmE -Ja:p/ noun (NAmE)

= BAKERY

bake-ware /'beikwea(r); NAmE -wer/ noun [U] tins and other containers used for baking ‘JftM#] H Bake-well tart /,beikwel 'ta:t; NAmE 'tairt/ noun [C, u] a sweet pie without pastry on the top, filled with jam and a cooked mixture that tastes of almonds JH

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bak ing /‘beikirj/ noun, adj.

noun [u] the process of cooking using dry heat in an oven rfrj; ‘JK'Jtn: a baking dish/tin m adj. (also .baking ’hot) extremely hot 'baking flour noun [u] (US) = self-raising flour 'baking powder noun [U] a mixture of powders that are used to make cakes rise and become light as they are baked

'baking sheet (also 'baking tray) (both BrE) (NAmE 'cookie sheet) noun a small sheet of metal used for baking food on (         ( MM )

'baking soda noun [u] = sodium bicarbonate Bakke decision /'baeki disi3n/ noun an important decision made by the US Supreme Court in 1978. A white man called Allan Bakke claimed that he had been illegally refused a place to study at medical school because black students with worse marks/grades were accepted. The Court decided that he should have been accepted, but that it is not wrong to consider a person’s race when deciding whether to accept them. E H M $c & ( 1978 GXJtffc •

ilc ) —see also positive discrimin­ation

bak-kie /'bAki/ noun (SAfrE) a motor vehicle with low sides and no roof at the back, used for transporting goods or people, or as a car (

^ — compare pickup n.( 1)

bak-lava (also bac-lava) /'baiklava; NAmE ,ba:kla'va:/ noun [C, U] a sweet dish from the Middle East, made from very thin pastry, nuts, and honey    ,

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bak-sheesh (also back-sheesh) /,baek'Ji:J7 noun [U] (informal) (in some Asian countries) a small amount of money that is given as a gift to poor people, or given to