The difference between Bake and Stew
When used as nouns, bake means the act of cooking food by baking, whereas stew means a cooking-dish used for boiling.
When used as verbs, bake means (with person as subject) to cook (something) in an oven, whereas stew means to cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
check bellow for the other definitions of Bake and Stew
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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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Stew as a noun (obsolete):
A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.
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Stew as a noun (now, _, historical):
A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath.
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Stew as a noun (archaic):
A brothel.
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Stew as a noun (obsolete):
A prostitute.
Examples:
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Stew as a noun (uncountable, countable):
A dish cooked by stewing.
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Stew as a noun (Sussex):
A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating; a stew pond.
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Stew as a noun (US, regional):
An artificial bed of oysters.
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Stew as a noun (slang):
A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.
Examples:
"to be in a stew'"
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Stew as a verb (transitive, or, intransitive, or, ergative):
To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
Examples:
"I'm going to stew some meat for the casserole."
"The meat is stewing nicely."
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Stew as a verb (transitive):
To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.
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Stew as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):
To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
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Stew as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):
To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.
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Stew as a noun:
A steward or stewardess on an airplane.