Bake vs. Cook: What's the Difference?

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

To prepare (food) for eating by applying heat.

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

To prepare or treat by heating

To cook food with dry heat.

(Slang) To alter or falsify so as to make a more favorable impression; doctor

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

To prepare food for eating by applying heat.

The act or process of baking.

To undergo application of heat especially for the purpose of later ingestion.

An amount baked.

(Slang) To happen, develop, or take place

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

(Slang) To proceed or perform very well

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

A person who prepares food for eating.

To be cooked in an oven.

(cooking) A person who prepares food.

(intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.

(cooking) The head cook of a manor house.

(transitive) To dry by heat.

(cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food.

To be hot.

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

To cause to be hot.

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

To smoke marijuana.

A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

To harden by cold.

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

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

(intransitive) To be cooked.

To incorporate into something greater.

To be uncomfortably hot.

The act of cooking food by baking.

(slang) To execute by electric chair.

Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.

To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.

Any food item that is baked.

To concoct or prepare.

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

To tamper with or alter; to cook up.

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

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 play music vigorously.

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

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

To harden by cold.

To throw.

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

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

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

To throw.

The process, or result, of baking.

To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.

Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven;

To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; - often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.

Prepare with dry heat in an oven;

To prepare food for the table.

Heat by a natural force;

One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.

A fish, the European striped wrasse.

Someone who cooks food

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

Prepare a hot meal;

Prepare for eating by applying heat;

Transform and make suitable for consumption by heating;

Transform by heating;

Fake or falsify;