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Definition: Bakery |
BakeryNoun1. 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) |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| BATA | English | Bakery Allied Traders Association | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: BakerySynonyms: bakehouse (n), bakeshop (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Bakery |
| English words defined with "bakery": bump ♦ chance ♦ encounter ♦ find ♦ happen ♦ patisserie. (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 HAND ♦ cake maker, CHEF, PASSENGER VESSEL, Consumer-oriented agricultural products, COOK, PASTRY ♦ depositing-machine operator, DIVIDING-MACHINE OPERATOR, dough molder, hand ♦ ingredient mixer, INGREDIENT SCALER ♦ LABORER, PIE BAKERY, LUMPIA ♦ MANAGER, BAKERY ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, roll-dough divider, roll-machine operator ♦ scaling-machine operator ♦ WAFER-MACHINE OPERATOR, waffle baker, waffle-machine operator. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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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![]() | 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. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They passed by the bakery, but Cosette did not think of the bread she was to have brought back. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.84% | 256 | 18,500 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.16% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 259 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| South Africa | Macadams Bakery Supplies Holdings Limited | United Kingdom | Bakery Services Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "bakery": bakery goods ♦ bakery oven ♦ fancy bakery ♦ mechanized bakery. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | e-muhaldim. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | furnorum, furnos. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bakery" (pronounced bā"kerē) |
| 3 | -k er ē | crockery, hickory, mockery, quackery, trickery. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 6B 65 72 79 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- -.- . .-. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01101011 01100101 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a k e r y |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)366777718491 |
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