Bake vs Steam - What's the difference?
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(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.
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* Spenser:
(UK, NZ) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
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The act of cooking food by baking.
The vapor formed when water changes from liquid phase to gas phase.
Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
(figuratively) Internal energy for motive power.
(figuratively) Pent-up anger.
A steam-powered vehicle.
Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
(obsolete) Any exhalation.
* Milton
(cooking) To cook with steam.
To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
To produce or vent steam.
* Dryden
To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
* Boyle
(figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
(figuratively) To make angry.
To be covered with condensed water vapor.
To travel by means of steam power.
* N. P. Willis
(figuratively, or, literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
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(obsolete) To exhale.
Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.
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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 ----steam
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(wikipedia steam)Noun
(-)- After three weeks in bed he was finally able to sit up under his own steam .
- Dad had to go outside to blow off some steam .
- a steam of rich, distilled perfumes
Synonyms
* (a steam-powered vehicle) steamerDerived terms
* blow off steam * build up steam * steam bath * steamboat * steam boiler * steam condenser * steam distillation * steam engine * steam hammer * steam heater * steam iron * steam locomotive * steam power * steam-powered * steam railroad * steamroller * steamship * steam shovel * steam train * steam turbine * run out of steam * under one's own steamVerb
(en verb)- to steam wood or cloth
- My brother's ghost hangs hovering there, / O'er his warm blood, that steams into the air.
- The dissolved amber steamed away into the air.
- It really steams me to see her treat him like that.
- With all the heavy breathing going on the windows were quickly steamed in the car.
- We steamed around the Mediterranean.
- The vessel steamed out of port.
- If he heard of anyone picking the fruit he would steam off and lecture them.
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