Bake vs. Boil

Bake vs. Boil — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Bake and Boil

Bakeverb

(with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven.

I baked a delicious cherry pie.She's been baking all day to prepare for the dinner.

Boilnoun

A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.

Bakeverb

(intransitive) (with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.

The cake baked at 350°F.

Boilnoun

The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.

Add the noodles when the water comes to the boil.

Bakeverb

(intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.

The clay baked in the sun.

Boilnoun

A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.

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Bakeverb

(transitive) To dry by heat.

They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.

Boilnoun

The collective noun for a group of hawks.

Bakeverb

To be hot.

It is baking in the greenhouse.I'm baking after that workout in the gym.

Boilverb

(transitive) To heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.

Boil some water in a pan.

Bakeverb

To smoke marijuana.

Boilverb

To cook in boiling water.

Boil the eggs for two minutes.Is the rice boiling yet?
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Bakeverb

To harden by cold.

Boilverb

(intransitive) Of a liquid, to begin to turn into a gas, seethe.

Pure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.

Bakeverb

To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.

Boilverb

Said of weather being uncomfortably hot.

It’s boiling outside!

Bakenoun

The act of cooking food by baking.

Boilverb

To feel uncomfortably hot. See also seethe.

I’m boiling in here – could you open the window?

Bakenoun

Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.

Boilverb

To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.

to boil sugar or salt

Bakenoun

(US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.

Boilverb

(obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.

Bakenoun

A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten in Barbados and sometimes elsewhere, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or in some places sometimes roasted).

Boilverb

To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.

the boiling waves of the sea

Bakenoun

Any item that is baked.

Boilverb

To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.

His blood boils with anger.

Bakeverb

cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven;

bake the potatoes

Boilnoun

a painful sore with a hard pus-filled core

Bakeverb

prepare with dry heat in an oven;

bake a cake

Boilnoun

the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level;

the brought to water to a boil

Bakeverb

heat by a natural force;

The sun broils the valley in the summer

Boilverb

come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor;

Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius

Boilverb

cook in boiling liquid;

boil potatoes

Boilverb

bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point;

boil this liquid until it evaporates

Boilverb

be agitated;

the sea was churning in the storm

Boilverb

be in an agitated emotional state;

The customer was seething with anger