The difference between Bake and Boil

When used as nouns, bake means the act of cooking food by baking, whereas boil means a localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.

When used as verbs, bake means (with person as subject) to cook (something) in an oven, whereas boil means to heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.


check bellow for the other definitions of Bake and Boil

  1. Bake as a verb (ditransitive, or, intransitive):

    (with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven.

    Examples:

    "I baked a delicious cherry pie."

    "She's been baking all day to prepare for the dinner."

  2. Bake as a verb (intransitive):

    (with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.

    Examples:

    "The cake baked at 350°F."

  3. Bake as a verb (intransitive):

    To be warmed to drying and hardening.

    Examples:

    "The clay baked in the sun."

  4. Bake as a verb (transitive):

    To dry by heat.

    Examples:

    "They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture."

  5. Bake as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):

    To be hot.

    Examples:

    "It is baking in the greenhouse."

    "I'm baking after that workout in the gym."

  6. Bake as a verb (intransitive, slang):

    To smoke marijuana.

  7. Bake as a verb:

    To harden by cold.

  8. Bake as a verb (computer graphics, transitive):

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

  1. Bake as a noun:

    The act of cooking food by baking.

  2. Bake as a noun (especially, UK, NZ):

    Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.

  3. Bake as a noun (US):

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

  4. Bake as a noun (Barbadian, sometimes US and UK):

    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).

  5. Bake as a noun:

    Any item that is baked.

  1. Boil as a noun:

    A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.

  1. Boil as a noun:

    The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.

    Examples:

    "Add the noodles when the water comes to the boil."

  2. Boil as a noun:

    A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.

  3. Boil as a noun (rare, nonstandard):

    The collective noun for a group of hawks.

  1. Boil as a verb (transitive):

    To heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.

    Examples:

    "Boil some water in a pan."

  2. Boil as a verb (transitive, intransitive):

    To cook in boiling water.

    Examples:

    "Boil the eggs for two minutes."

    "Is the rice boiling yet?"

  3. Boil as a verb (intransitive):

    Of a liquid, to begin to turn into a gas, seethe.

    Examples:

    "Pure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius."

  4. Boil as a verb (intransitive, informal, used only in [[progressive]] tenses):

    Said of weather being uncomfortably hot.

    Examples:

    "It’s boiling outside!"

  5. Boil as a verb (intransitive, informal, used only in [[progressive]] tenses):

    To feel uncomfortably hot. See also seethe.

    Examples:

    "I’m boiling in here – could you open the window?"

  6. Boil as a verb:

    To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.

    Examples:

    "to boil sugar or salt"

  7. Boil as a verb (obsolete):

    To steep or soak in warm water.

  8. Boil as a verb:

    To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.

    Examples:

    "the boiling waves of the sea"

  9. Boil as a verb:

    To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.

    Examples:

    "His blood boils with anger."