Bake vs. Boil

Bake and Boil Definitions
Bake
To cook (food) with dry heat, especially in an oven.
Boil
To change from a liquid to a vapor by the application of heat
All the water boiled away and left the kettle dry.
Bake
To harden or dry (something) by subjecting to heat in or as if in an oven
Bake bricks.
Boil
To reach the boiling point.
Bake
To cook food with dry heat.
Boil
To undergo the action of boiling, especially in being cooked.
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Bake
To become hardened or dry by or as if by having been subjected to the heat of an oven.
Boil
To be in a state of agitation; seethe
A river boiling over the rocks.
Bake
The act or process of baking.
Boil
To be stirred up or greatly excited, especially in anger
The mere idea made me boil.
Bake
An amount baked.
Boil
To vaporize (a liquid) by the application of heat.
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Bake
A social gathering at which food is cooked by baking and then served.
Boil
To heat to the boiling point.
Bake
To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
I baked a delicious cherry pie.
She's been baking all day to prepare for the dinner.
He baked her a cake.
Boil
To cook or clean by boiling.
Bake
To be cooked in an oven.
The cake baked at 350°F.
Boil
To separate by evaporation in the process of boiling
Boil the maple sap.
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Bake
(intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.
The clay baked in the sun.
Boil
The condition or act of boiling.
Bake
(transitive) To dry by heat.
They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.
Boil
Lower Southern US A picnic featuring shrimp, crab, or crayfish boiled in large pots with spices, and then shelled and eaten by hand.
Bake
To be hot.
It is baking in the greenhouse.
I'm baking after that workout in the gym.
Boil
An agitated, swirling, roiling mass of liquid
"Those tumbling boils show a dissolving bar and a changing channel there" (Mark Twain).
Bake
To cause to be hot.
Boil
A painful, circumscribed pus-filled inflammation of the skin and subcutaneous tissue usually caused by a local staphylococcal infection. Also called furuncle.
Bake
To smoke marijuana.
Boil
A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
Bake
To harden by cold.
Boil
The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.
Add the noodles when the water comes to the boil.
Bake
To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
Boil
A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
Bake
To incorporate into something greater.
Boil
The collective noun for a group of hawks.
Bake
The act of cooking food by baking.
Boil
A bubbling.
Bake
Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
Boil
To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
Boil some water in a pan.
Bake
Any food item that is baked.
Boil
(ambitransitive) To cook in boiling water.
Boil the eggs for three minutes.
Is the rice boiling yet?
Bake
(US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
Boil
To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
Pure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
Bake
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).
Boil
To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
Bake
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.
Boil
To be uncomfortably hot.
It’s boiling outside!
Bake
To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
Boil
To feel uncomfortably hot.
I’m boiling in here – could you open the window?
Bake
To harden by cold.
The earth . . . is baked with frost.
They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone.
Boil
(transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
To boil sugar or salt
Bake
To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes.
Boil
(obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
Bake
To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.
Boil
To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
The boiling waves of the sea
Bake
The process, or result, of baking.
Boil
To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
His blood boils with anger.
Bake
Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven;
Bake the potatoes
Boil
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.
Bake
Prepare with dry heat in an oven;
Bake a cake
Boil
To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot.
Bake
Heat by a natural force;
The sun broils the valley in the summer
Boil
To pass from a liquid to an aëriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.
Boil
To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.
Then boiled my breast with flame and burning wrath.
Boil
To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.
Boil
To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.
Boil
To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.
Boil
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.
The stomach cook is for the hall,And boileth meate for them all.
Boil
To steep or soak in warm water.
To try whether seeds be old or new, the sense can not inform; but if you boil them in water, the new seeds will sprout sooner.
Boil
Act or state of boiling.
Boil
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.
Boil
A painful sore with a hard pus-filled core
Boil
The temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level;
The brought to water to a boil
Boil
Come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor;
Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius
Boil
Cook in boiling liquid;
Boil potatoes
Boil
Bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point;
Boil this liquid until it evaporates
Boil
Be agitated;
The sea was churning in the storm
Boil
Be in an agitated emotional state;
The customer was seething with anger