bake vs roast

bake

verb
  • To dry by heat. 

  • To incorporate into something greater. 

  • To cause to be hot. 

  • To be hot. 

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

  • 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. 

roast

verb
  • To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat. 

  • To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance. 

  • To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc. 

  • To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn. 

  • To dissipate the volatile parts of by heat, as ores. 

  • To admonish someone vigorously. 

  • To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine. 

noun
  • The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted. 

  • A cut of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted. 

  • An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted. 

  • A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes. 

  • A social event at which food is roasted and eaten. 

  • A creative insult as a response to something someone said. 

  • A meal consisting of roast foods. 

adj
  • Having been cooked by roasting. 

  • Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized. 

How often have the words bake and roast occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )