Bake vs Parch - What's the difference?
bake | parch |
(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 burn the surface of, to scorch.
To roast, as dry grain.
* Bible, Leviticus xxiii. 14
To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat.
(colloquial) To make thirsty.
(archaic) To boil something slowly (Still used in Lancashire in , a type of mushy peas ).
To become superficially burnt; be become sunburned.
The condition of being parched.
* 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 64:
In transitive terms the difference between bake and parch
is that bake is to dry by heat while parch is to dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat.In intransitive terms the difference between bake and parch
is that bake is to be baked to heating or drying while parch is to become superficially burnt; be become sunburned.As verbs the difference between bake and parch
is that bake is to cook (something) in an oven while parch is to burn the surface of, to scorch.As nouns the difference between bake and parch
is that bake is any of various baked dishes resembling casserole while parch is the condition of being parched.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 ----parch
English
Verb
- The sun today could parch cement.
- Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn.
- The patient's mouth is parched from fever.
- We're parched , hon. Could you send up an ale from the cooler?
- The locals watched, amused, as the tourists parched in the sun, having neglected to apply sunscreen or bring water.
Noun
(parches)- Yet here he is, not at the head, but somewhere toward the rear of the serpentine queue wending its way through all this parch […].