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Babe vs Bake - What's the difference?

babe | bake |

As nouns the difference between babe and bake

is that babe is father, daddy while bake is nautical traffic sign or buoy.

babe

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (literary, or, poetic) A baby or infant; a very young human or animal.
  • These events came to pass when he was but a babe .
  • (slang) An attractive person, especially a young woman.
  • She's a real babe !
  • Darling (term of endearment).
  • Hey, babe , how's about you and me getting together?

    Synonyms

    * (infant) baby, child, infant * (attractive person) ** (woman) hottie, doll, fox ** See: * (darling) darling, dear, love, sweetheart

    Derived terms

    * bikini babe * babe magnet * out of the mouths of babes

    References

    See also

    * infant

    bake

    English

    Verb

    (bak)
  • (transitive, or, intransitive) To cook (something) in an oven.
  • I baked a delicious cherry pie.
    She's been baking all day to prepare for the dinner.
  • To dry by heat.
  • To prepare food by baking it.
  • To be baked to heating or drying.
  • The clay baked in the sun.
  • (figuratively) To be hot.
  • It is baking in the greenhouse.
    I'm baking after that workout in the gym.
  • (slang) To smoke marijuana.
  • To harden by cold.
  • * Shakespeare:
  • The earth is baked with frost.
  • * Spenser:
  • They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone.

    Usage notes

    In the dialects of northern England, the simple past book'' and past participle ''baken are sometimes encountered.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * baked * bake-off * baking * in a bake * half-baked

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, NZ) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
  • * 2009 , Rosalind Peters, Kate Pankhurst, Clive Boursnell, Midnight Feast Magic: Sleepover Fun and Food
  • If you happen to have small, heat-proof glass or ceramic pots in your kitchen (known as ramekins) then you can make this very easy pasta bake in fun-size, individual portions.
  • The act of cooking food by baking.
  • Anagrams

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