Boast vs Bake - What's the difference?
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A brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself.
(squash) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
* 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
* (John Milton)
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, title= (obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
* Bible, Psalms xiiv. 8
(squash) To play a .
(ergative) To possess something special.
(masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
(sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
(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.
As nouns the difference between boast and bake
is that boast is a brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself while bake is nautical traffic sign or buoy.As a verb boast
is to brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself or boast can be (masonry) to dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.boast
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) boosten, bosten, from .Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- On no account will he or any other kind be able to boast that he's escaped the pursuit of those who can follow so detailed and comprehensive a method of enquiry.
- Lest bad men should boast / Their specious deeds.
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",
- In God we boast all the day long.
Synonyms
* bragDerived terms
* boastful * boastfully * outboastEtymology 2
Verb
(en verb)- (Weale)
Anagrams
* * English reporting verbsbake
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.
