✳ bake (verb)

Sounds:
- /beɪk/

Forms:
- bakes (present, singular, third-person)
- baking (participle, present)
- baked (past)
- book (dialectal, past)
- baked (participle, past)
- baken (dialectal, participle, past)

bake (verb) senses:
1. (transitive or intransitive or ditransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
2. (intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
3. (intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.
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✳ bake (noun)

Forms:
- bakes (plural)

bake (noun) senses:
1. The act of cooking food by baking.
2. (especially UK, Australia, New Zealand) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
3. Any food item that is baked.
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🌜 Present Simple 🌛

She works at a hospital.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- What are you guys doing over there?
- What do you mean, Janice?
- I ' Ve been waiting for a response on the Blake Building design for nearly two weeks.
- I ' m sorry, Janice. But we ' Ve been waiting on the client. It ' s out of our hands at the moment.

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✳ fact (noun)

Sounds:
- /fækt/

Forms:
- facts (plural)

fact (noun) senses:
1. Something actual as opposed to invented.
2. Something which is real.
3. Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.
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✳ fact (intj)

fact (intj) senses:
1. Used before making a statement to introduce it as a trustworthy one.

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🌜 Present Continuous 🌛

We are waiting for the bus to arrive.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- How is your ankle?
- My what? Oh, that, right as a trivet.
- Please be careful next time.
- I will, thank you.

🌜 Present Perfect Continuous 🌛

They have been studying for the final exams.

✳ necessary (adj)

Sounds:
- /ˈnɛsəˌsɛɹi/ (US)
- /ˈnɛsəsɹɪ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈnɛsəɹi/ (nonstandard)

Forms:
- necessarier (comparative)
- more necessary (comparative)
- necessariest (superlative)
- most necessary (superlative)

necessary (adj) senses:
1. Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.
2. Unavoidable, inevitable.
3. (obsolete) Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.

✳ necessary (noun)

Forms:
- necessaries (plural)
- necessarys (plural)

necessary (noun) senses:
1. (chiefly UK, archaic, euphemistic, usually with the definite article) A place to do the "necessary" business of urination and defecation: an outhouse or lavatory.
2. (obsolete) Necessity.

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