bake vs clock

bake

verb
  • To incorporate into something greater. 

  • To cause to be hot. 

  • To be hot. 

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

  • To dry by heat. 

  • To smoke marijuana. 

  • To be warmed to drying and hardening. 

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

  • To be cooked in an oven. 

noun
  • 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). 

  • Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole. 

  • Any food item that is baked. 

  • The act of cooking food by baking. 

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

clock

verb
  • To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something. 

  • To measure the speed of. 

  • To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work. 

  • To identify someone as being transgender. 

  • To beat a video game. 

  • To measure the duration of. 

  • To hit (someone) heavily. 

  • To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle. 

noun
  • The odometer of a motor vehicle. 

  • A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking. 

  • An instrument that measures or keeps track of time; a non-wearable timepiece. 

  • A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock. 

  • A time clock. 

  • The seed head of a dandelion. 

  • A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time. 

  • An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules. 

  • A CPU clock cycle, or T-state. 

  • A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius). 

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