bake vs cook

bake

verb
  • To be hot. 

  • To incorporate into something greater. 

  • To cause 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. 

cook

verb
  • To be uncomfortably hot. 

  • To tamper with or alter; to cook up. 

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

  • To concoct or prepare. 

  • To play music vigorously. 

  • To execute by electric chair. 

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

  • To be cooked. 

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

noun
  • The degree or quality of cookedness of food 

  • One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth. 

  • A person who prepares food. 

  • A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus. 

  • The head cook of a manor house 

  • A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth. 

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