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Bakery

Definition: Bakery

Bakery

Noun

1. A workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bakery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Bakery

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField
BATAEnglishBakery Allied Traders AssociationN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Bakery

Synonyms: bakehouse (n), bakeshop (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Bakery

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Mart

Grocery, supermarket, candy store, sweet shop, confectionery, bakery, greengrocer, delicatessen, bakeshop, butcher shop, fish store, farmers' market, mom and pop store, dairy, health food store.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Bakery

English words defined with "bakery": bumpchanceencounterfindhappenpatisserie. (references)
Specialty definitions using "bakery": BAKER HELPER, baker, bench, baker, cake, baker, pastry, BAKERY WORKER, CONVEYOR LINE, BAKERY-MACHINE MECHANIC, BAKERY-MACHINE-MECHANIC SUPERVISOR, batter depositor, BATTER SCALER, BENCH HANDcake maker, CHEF, PASSENGER VESSEL, Consumer-oriented agricultural products, COOK, PASTRYdepositing-machine operator, DIVIDING-MACHINE OPERATOR, dough molder, handingredient mixer, INGREDIENT SCALERLABORER, PIE BAKERY, LUMPIAMANAGER, BAKERYReal Programmers Don't Use Pascal, roll-dough divider, roll-machine operatorscaling-machine operatorWAFER-MACHINE OPERATOR, waffle baker, waffle-machine operator. (references)

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Modern Usage: Bakery

DomainUsage

Screenplays

And they found him in the back of Wilson's bakery, naked, with fifteen other men. (Shock Treatment; writing credit: Richard O'Brien; Jim Sharman)

Lyrics

This Roman Meal bakery thought you'd like to know. ("Another Brick in the Wall"; performing artist: Pink Floyd)

Movie/TV Titles

The Bakery (1921)

Fun in a Bakery Shop (1902)

Ju No-myeong Bakery (2000)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Bakery

DomainTitle

References

  • Bakery Services Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • The 2003 World Market Forecasts for Imported Bakery Products, Bread, Biscuits, and Cakes (reference)

  • The 2003-2008 World Outlook for English Muffins Bakery Snacks (reference)

  • The World Market for Bakery Products, Bread, Biscuits, and Cakes: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  • Macadams Bakery Supplies Holdings Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Baking for Profit: Starting a Small Bakery (reference)

  • Nancy Silverton's Pastries from the LA Brea Bakery (reference)

  • Rosie's Bakery All Butter Fresh Cream Sugar Packed No Holds Barred Baking Book (reference)

  • Sweet & Natural Baking: Sugar-Free, Flavorful Desserts from Mani's Bakery (reference)

  • Three Dog Bakery Cookbook: Over 50 Recipes for All-Natural Paw-Lickin Treats for Your Dog (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Suzanne's Career/Girl at the Monceau Bakery (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Bakery

Photos:
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Photo Album: Bakery

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Sidney Taylor holds a tray of pastries in the bakery section of Giant Foods in Dumfries, VA.Credit: USDA.

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 3, Vauclaire, France. : Bakery and ovens.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Distributing bread from field bakery, Gungalin].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[A regimental field bakery, Gungalin].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[The bakery at The Naval Hospital, Vladivostok].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[The bakery at The Naval Hospital, Vladivostok].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Bakery

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

They passed by the bakery, but Cosette did not think of the bread she was to have brought back.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Bakery

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Lower market growth is forecasted for the bakery sector. (references)

The most important sub sectors were the meat processing and bakery industries. (references)

By sub sectors, the bakery processing equipment sector is highly fragmented and dominated by locally owned firms. (references)

Economic History

Hungary

Hungary has well-developed sweets, confectionery and bakery industries. (references)

Philippines

The food processing sectors which require imported equipment are meat, fish, fruit, dairy, beverage, snack foods, and bakery. (references)

Belgium

In addition, there are a number of Belgian food-processing firms that use imported nuts in bakery products, confection and ice cream. (references)

Human Rights

Yugoslavia

On April 25, two policemen brutally beat a law student because he failed to show them due deference as he entered a bakery in Podgorica. (references)

Brazil

In February two Sao Paulo police officers arrested in December 2000 on the accusation of having killed four persons and injuring three in a bakery in Sao Bernardo do Campo were charged with homicide, relieved of duty, and imprisoned. (references)

Political Economy

SWITZERLAND

Switzerland's only subsidized exports are in the agricultural sector, where exports of dairy products (primarily cheese) and processed food products (chocolate products, grain-based bakery products, etc.) benefit from state subsidies. (references)

Trade

New Zealand

For other food products, nutritional information is expected to be a prerequisite by early 2002. Use, or pack on dates are currently not required except for bakery products. (references)

Bulgaria

Depending on the source of financing, trade and investment projects receiving financing support range from the export of nuclear reactor control equipment to the establishment of a bakery, a yogurt factory, and an ice-cream distributorship. (references)

Honduras

The following products are excluded from this requirement: alcoholic beverages containing 10 percent or more of alcohol by volume, bakery products which due to their nature are generally consumed within 24 hours of the time they were produced, vinegar, salt, chewing gum, fresh fruits and vegetables. (references)

Travel

Ghana

Restaurant, fast food, takeaway and bakery. (references)

Worker Rights

Portugal

In July a court in the northern town of Guimaraes imposed a stiff fine on a bakery that had already been cited three times for employing minors. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Bakery

"Bakery" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.84% of the time. "Bakery" is used about 259 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)98.84%25618,500
Noun (proper)1.16%3202,518
                    Total100.00%259N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Bakery

CountryNameCountryName
South Africa

Macadams Bakery Supplies Holdings Limited

United Kingdom

Bakery Services Plc

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Bakery

Expressions using "bakery": bakery goods bakery oven fancy bakery mechanized bakery. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bakery

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bakery

1,962

bakery equipment

587

corner bakery

414

bakery supply

189

three dog bakery

150

dog bakery

138

bakery portos

85

bakery box

72

bakery equipment used

66

interstate bakery

60
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bakery

Language Translations for "bakery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

furrë (bakehouse, kiln, oven, stove), dyqan buke (baker's). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فرن (furnace, kiln, oven, stove), ‏مخبز, ‏دكان بيع الخبز. (various references)

   

Asturian

  

panadería. (various references)

   

Basque

  

okidegi. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

фурна (furnace, oven, stove), магазин за хлебни произведения, пекарство, пекарница (bakehouse). (various references)

   

Cebuano

  

panaderya. (various references)

   

Chamorro

  

panaderia. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

面包店. (various references)

   

Cornish

  

popty. (various references)

   

Czech

  

pekařství, pekárna. (various references)

   

Danish

  

bageri. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bakkerý, ambachtelijk bakkersbedrijf. (various references)

   

Ecuadorian Quechua

  

tantahuasi. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

bakejo. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

bakarí. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

leipuriliike (baker's business, pastry shop), leipomo (baker's). (various references)

   

French

  

boulangerie (bakehouse). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

bakkerij. (various references)

   

German

  

Bäckerei (baker's). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φούρνοσ (furnace, oast, oven), φουρνάρικο, αρτοπωλείο (baker’s), αρτοποιείο. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מאפי". (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pékség (bakehouse, baker's). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

bakarí. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

toko roti. (various references)

   

Inuktitut

  

niaqujaliuqvik. (various references)

   

Italian

  

panetteria. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

パン屋 , ヘ長調 (a hike in the basic wagebase up, bacon, bailout, bake off, baked potato, Bakelite, baking powder, bare look, bare top, base, base camp, base coach, base down, basement, BASIC, Basic English, bass, bassist, Bayes, Bayesian, Bayrische Motorenwerke, bearing, Beethoven, Behcet, beige, Beirut, Belgrade, beta, betatron, BMW, F major, kiss, salary increase, to base something on, to make something the basis, valium, vector, Vega, veil, version of English with a maximum of 850 basic words). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ベーカリー , パンや. (various references)

   

Kongo

  

fulu kia ndambila mampa. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

빵집. (various references)

   

Macedonian

  

pekara. (various references)

   

Manx

  

thie fuinnee (bake house), shapp yn uinneyder, shamyr uinnee. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

bakeri. (various references)

   

Occitan

  

fornariá. (various references)

   

Papago

  

pahntakud kih. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

panaderia. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

akerybay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

padaria (bakehouse). (various references)

   

Provencal

  

fornariá. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

brutãrie (bakehouse, baker's shop). (various references)

   

Romansch

  

pasternaria. (various references)

   

Ruanda

  

aho bakorere imigati. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пекарня (bakehouse). (various references)

   

Samoan

  

fale fai falaoa. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pekara (bakehouse, baker's). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

panadería (bakehouse, baker's), panaderia (brasserie). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

bakr'oso. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bageri. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ร้านขายขนมปัง (bakeshop). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

fırıncılık, fırın (bakehouse, cooker, furnace, hearth, kiln, oven, roaster, stove), ekmekçi dükkânı, ekmek fırını (bakehouse). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

ремесло пекаря, пекарня (bake-house). (various references)

   

Zulu

  

ibhikawosi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Bakery

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

e-muhaldim. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

furnorum, furnos. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: Bakery

Misspellings

"Bakery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Akary, Babeny, backey, baeri, bagary, Bakayev, Bakero, Bakkar, bakkra, Bakri, baterey, baterry, batery, Becerra, Bigerry, bikeny, Blachrie, Blakerigg, Boekerij, bokey, Boukary, Bukayi, Kaberu. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Bakery"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "bakery" (pronounced bā"kerē)
3-k er ēcrockery, hickory, mockery, quackery, trickery.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Bakery

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-k-r-y"

-1 letter: baker, barky, barye, beaky, brake, braky, break, kebar, yerba.

-2 letters: abye, aery, bake, bare, bark, beak, bear, brae, bray, byre, eyra, kbar, kerb, kyar, rake, ryke, yare, year, yerk.

-3 letters: aby, arb, are, ark, aye, bar, bay, bey, bra, bye, ear, era, kab, kae, kay, kea, key, ray, reb, rya, rye, yak, yar, yea.

-4 letters: ab, ae, ar, ay, ba, be, by, er, ka, re, ya, ye.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-k-r-y"
 

+2 letters: bankerly, basketry, daybreak, keyboard, rockabye, yearbook.

 

+3 letters: breakaway, daybreaks, hackberry, keyboards, rockabyes, yearbooks.

 

+4 letters: blackberry, breakaways, breaksaway, bricklayer, keyboarded, keyboarder, rekeyboard, remarkably.

 

+5 letters: bricklayers, farkleberry, jabberwocky, keyboarders, keyboarding, keyboardist, rekeyboards.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bakery


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 61 6B 65 72 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-    -.-    .    .-.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100001 01101011 01100101 01110010 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#107 &#101 &#114 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 006B 0065 0072 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

366777718491

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Usage Frequency
11. Names: Company Usage
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Translations: Ancient
16. Abbreviations
17. Acronyms
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams
21. Orthography
22. Bibliography


  

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