Bake vs Barbecue - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between bake and barbecue is that bake is nautical traffic sign or buoy while barbecue is a fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium. As a verb barbecue is to cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
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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barbecue Alternative forms
* barbeque
* BBQ (informal abbreviation)
* bar-be-que, bar-b-que (informal forms based on the abbreviation)
* (meat) 'cue, 'que, que (informal shortenings)
Noun
( en noun)
A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.
- We cooked our food on the barbecue .
A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.
- We're having a barbecue on Saturday, and you're invited.
Meat, especially pork or beef, which has been cooked in such an apparatus (i.e. smoked over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels) and then chopped up or shredded.
- She ordered a plate of barbecue with a side of slaw.
(dated) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
* 2000 , Andrew Gerald Gravette, Architectural Heritage of the Caribbean , page 227:
- Drying the coffee beans took place in a barbecue , basically a large, flat platform, where the pulped coffee beans could be laid out and turned as they dried. Barbecues were often walled around and raised above ground level.
Synonyms
* (grill) braai (South African English), buccan, compare grill
* (event) braai (South African English), cookout
Derived terms
* barbecue sauce
* barbie
Verb
(barbecu)
To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
To grill.
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