Bake vs Fry - What's the difference?
bake | fry |
(transitive, or, intransitive) To cook (something) in an oven.
To dry by heat.
To prepare food by baking it.
To be baked to heating or drying.
(figuratively) To be hot.
(slang) To smoke marijuana.
To harden by cold.
* Shakespeare:
* Spenser:
(UK, NZ) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
* 2009 , Rosalind Peters, Kate Pankhurst, Clive Boursnell, Midnight Feast Magic: Sleepover Fun and Food
The act of cooking food by baking.
To cook (something) in hot fat.
To cook in hot fat.
(colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.
(informal) To be executed by the electric chair.
(informal) To destroy (something, usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
(usually in plural'' fries ) (''mainly Canada and US ) A fried potato.
(Ireland, British) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
(colloquial, archaic) A state of excitement.
Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
Young fish; fishlings.
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
(archaic) A swarm, especially of something small (a fry of children ).
The spawn of frogs.
As a noun bake
is nautical traffic sign or buoy.As a proper noun fry is
.bake
English
Verb
(bak)- I baked a delicious cherry pie.
- She's been baking all day to prepare for the dinner.
- The clay baked in the sun.
- It is baking in the greenhouse.
- I'm baking after that workout in the gym.
- The earth is baked with frost.
- 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 alsoDerived terms
* baked * bake-off * baking * in a bake * half-bakedNoun
(en noun)- 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.
Anagrams
* English ergative verbs ----fry
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) frien, from (etyl) frire, from (etyl)Verb
(en-verb)- You'll fry if you go out in this sun with no sunblock on.
- He's guilty of murder — he's going to fry.
- If you apply that much voltage, you'll fry the resistor.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* fried * frying * have other fish to fryNoun
(fries)- to be in a fry
Synonyms
* (fried potato''): chip (''Australia, New Zealand, UK ), fried potato * (meal of fried sausages, bacon, etc ): fry-upEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(fries)- it is not possible for man to sever the wheat from the tares, the good fish from the other frie ; that must be the Angels Ministery at the end of mortall things.