bake vs melt

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. 

melt

verb
  • To be very hot and sweat profusely. 

  • To be emotionally softened or touched. 

  • To be discouraged. 

  • To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat. 

  • To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken. 

  • To dissolve, disperse, vanish. 

noun
  • A melt sandwich. 

  • A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water. 

  • The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions. 

  • Molten material, the product of melting. 

  • The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state. 

  • Rock showing evidence of having been remelted after it originally solidified. 

  • An idiot. 

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