paistaa — meaning in English

English meaning

• bake verb To cook food using dry heat in an oven.
• do verb To perform or carry out an action or task.
• fry verb To cook food in hot oil or fat.
• shine verb To give off or reflect light brightly.

Senses

paistaa is used for these senses in English:

• bake (transitive, or, intransitive, or, ditransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
• bake (intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
• do (transitive) To cook.
• fry (transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.
• shallow-fry (British) To fry in a frying pan with only a thin layer of oil; to pan-fry.
• shine (intransitive, copulative) To emit or reflect light so as to glow.

bake — full definition

1. verb To cook food using dry heat in an oven.
2. verb To harden or dry something using heat.
3. noun A social event where food is baked or served, or a baked dish itself.

do — full definition

1. verb To perform or carry out an action or task.
2. verb Used as a helping verb to form questions and negatives, or for emphasis.
3. verb To be sufficient or acceptable.
4. verb To fare or get on in a particular way.
5. noun A social event or party (informal, chiefly British).

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