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Bake vs Steak - What's the difference?

bake | steak |

As nouns the difference between bake and steak

is that bake is nautical traffic sign or buoy while steak is steak (slice of beef or meat of other animals).

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.

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    steak

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
  • (label) A slice of meat of other large animals; as venison steak, bear steak, pork steak, turtle steak.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author= Nick Miroff
    • , volume=189, issue=7, page=32, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] , passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […]. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.}}

    Synonyms

    * beefsteak

    Derived terms

    * steak and kidney pie

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cook (something, especially fish) like or as a steak.
  • * 2000 , Nick Karas, The Complete Book of Striped Bass Fishing , page 353:
    • Really large bass can be treated as filets, as we mentioned earlier, or they can be steaked'. If they are to be ' steaked , they should be cleaned like a bass to be baked, scaled, and the skin left in place.

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