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Bake vs Jake - What's the difference?

bake | jake |

As nouns the difference between bake and jake

is that bake is nautical traffic sign or buoy while jake is collar.

As an interjection jake is

come.

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

    Related terms

    * roast

    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

    * English ergative verbs ----

    jake

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang) Adequate; satisfactory; acceptable.
  • *1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 126:
  • *:‘What do you care? Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake .’

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US) A juvenile male turkey.
  • * 1998 , Jerome B Robinson, In the Turkey Woods
    • The spring turkey woods are occupied by roaming bands of jakes — year-old males with strong mating urges but inferior body size.