Bake vs. Cook

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

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.

Cooknoun

(cooking) A person who prepares food for a living.

Bakeverb

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

The cake baked at 350°F.

Cooknoun

(cooking) The head cook of a manor house

Bakeverb

(intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.

The clay baked in the sun.

Cooknoun

(slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.
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Bakeverb

(transitive) To dry by heat.

They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.

Cooknoun

(slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

Bakeverb

To be hot.

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

Cooknoun

A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

Bakeverb

To smoke marijuana.

Cookverb

(transitive) To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

I'm cooking bangers and mash.
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Bakeverb

To harden by cold.

Cookverb

(intransitive) To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

He's in the kitchen, cooking.

Bakeverb

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

Cookverb

(intransitive) To be being cooked.

The dinner is cooking on the stove.

Bakenoun

The act of cooking food by baking.

Cookverb

To be uncomfortably hot.

Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.

Bakenoun

Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.

Cookverb

To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.

I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab one and throw it back.

Bakenoun

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

Cookverb

To concoct or prepare.

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).

Cookverb

To tamper with or alter; to cook up.

Bakenoun

Any item that is baked.

Cookverb

To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)

Watch this band: they cook!Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!

Bakeverb

cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven;

bake the potatoes

Cookverb

To play music vigorously.

On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!

Bakeverb

prepare with dry heat in an oven;

bake a cake

Cookverb

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

Bakeverb

heat by a natural force;

The sun broils the valley in the summer

Cookverb

To throw.

Cooknoun

someone who cooks food

Cooknoun

English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)

Cookverb

prepare a hot meal;

My husband doesn't cook

Cookverb

prepare for eating by applying heat;

Cook me dinner, pleasecan you make me an omelette?fix breakfast for the guests, please

Cookverb

transform and make suitable for consumption by heating;

These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes

Cookverb

transform by heating;

The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle

Cookverb

fake or falsify;

Fudge the figurescook the booksfalsify the data