Bake vs. Boil: What's the Difference?

To cook (food) with dry heat, especially in an oven.

To change from a liquid to a vapor by the application of heat

To harden or dry (something) by subjecting to heat in or as if in an oven

To reach the boiling point.

To cook food with dry heat.

To undergo the action of boiling, especially in being cooked.

To become hardened or dry by or as if by having been subjected to the heat of an oven.

To be in a state of agitation; seethe

The act or process of baking.

To be stirred up or greatly excited, especially in anger

An amount baked.

To vaporize (a liquid) by the application of heat.

A social gathering at which food is cooked by baking and then served.

To heat to the boiling point.

To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).

To cook or clean by boiling.

To be cooked in an oven.

To separate by evaporation in the process of boiling

(intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.

The condition or act of boiling.

(transitive) To dry by heat.

Lower Southern US A picnic featuring shrimp, crab, or crayfish boiled in large pots with spices, and then shelled and eaten by hand.

To be hot.

An agitated, swirling, roiling mass of liquid

To cause to be hot.

A painful, circumscribed pus-filled inflammation of the skin and subcutaneous tissue usually caused by a local staphylococcal infection. Also called furuncle.

To smoke marijuana.

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

To harden by cold.

The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.

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

A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.

To incorporate into something greater.

The collective noun for a group of hawks.

The act of cooking food by baking.

A bubbling.

Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.

To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.

Any food item that is baked.

(ambitransitive) To cook in boiling water.

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

To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.

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).

To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.

To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.

To be uncomfortably hot.

To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.

To feel uncomfortably hot.

To harden by cold.

(transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.

To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes.

(obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.

To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.

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

The process, or result, of baking.

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

Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven;

To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.

Prepare with dry heat in an oven;

To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.

Heat by a natural force;

To pass from a liquid to an aëriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.

To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.

To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.

To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.

To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.

To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes.

To steep or soak in warm water.

Act or state of boiling.

A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.

A painful sore with a hard pus-filled core

The temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level;

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

Cook in boiling liquid;

Bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point;

Be agitated;

Be in an agitated emotional state;