The difference between Bake and Cook
When used as nouns, bake means the act of cooking food by baking, whereas cook means a person who prepares food for a living.
When used as verbs, bake means (with person as subject) to cook (something) in an oven, whereas cook means to prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
check bellow for the other definitions of Bake and Cook
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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."
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Bake as a verb (intransitive):
(with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
Examples:
"The cake baked at 350°F."
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Bake as a verb (intransitive):
To be warmed to drying and hardening.
Examples:
"The clay baked in the sun."
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Bake as a verb (transitive):
To dry by heat.
Examples:
"They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture."
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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."
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Bake as a verb (intransitive, slang):
To smoke marijuana.
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Bake as a verb:
To harden by cold.
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Bake as a verb (computer graphics, transitive):
To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
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Bake as a noun:
The act of cooking food by baking.
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Bake as a noun (especially, UK, NZ):
Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
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Bake as a noun (US):
A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
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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).
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Bake as a noun:
Any item that is baked.
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Cook as a noun (cooking):
A person who prepares food for a living.
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Cook as a noun (cooking):
The head cook of a manor house
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Cook as a noun (slang):
One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
Examples:
"Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab."
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Cook as a noun (slang):
A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
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Cook as a noun:
A fish, the European striped wrasse, .
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Cook as a verb (transitive):
To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
Examples:
"I'm cooking bangers and mash."
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Cook as a verb (intransitive):
To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
Examples:
"He's in the kitchen, cooking."
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Cook as a verb (intransitive):
To be being cooked.
Examples:
"The dinner is cooking on the stove."
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Cook as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):
To be uncomfortably hot.
Examples:
"Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there."
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Cook as a verb (slang):
To execute by electric chair.
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Cook as a verb (transitive, slang):
To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
Examples:
"I always cook my [[frag]]s, in case they try to grab one and throw it back."
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Cook as a verb:
To concoct or prepare.
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Cook as a verb:
To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
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Cook as a verb (intransitive, jazz, slang):
To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
Examples:
"Watch this band: they cook!"
"Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!"
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Cook as a verb (intransitive, idiomatic, music, slang):
To play music vigorously.
Examples:
"On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!"
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Cook as a verb (obsolete, rare, intransitive):
To make the noise of the cuckoo.
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Cook as a verb (UK, dialect, obsolete):
To throw.