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In transitive terms the difference between brown and bake

is that brown is to give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface while bake is to dry by heat.

As nouns the difference between brown and bake

is that brown is a colour like that of chocolate or coffee while bake is any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.

As verbs the difference between brown and bake

is that brown is to become brown while bake is to cook (something) in an oven.

As an adjective brown

is having a brown colour.

As a proper noun Brown

is {{surname|common|from=nicknames}.

brown

English

(wikipedia brown)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
  • The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.
  • (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
  • Black tar heroin.
  • (sometimes capitalised) A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance
  • Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Having a brown colour.
  • (obsolete) Gloomy.
  • Antonyms

    * (having brown as its colour) nonbrown

    Descendants

    * American Sign Language:

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To become brown.
  • Fry the onions until they brown .
  • (cooking) To cook something until it becomes brown.
  • Brown the onions in a large frying pan.
  • To tan.
  • Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
  • To make brown or dusky.
  • * Barlow
  • A trembling twilight o'er the welkin moves, / Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.
  • To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
  • (Ure)
  • To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
  • the browning of America

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from "brown") * brown adipose tissue * brown ale * brown bastard * brown bear * Brown Bess * Brown Betty * brown-bill * brown bread * brown coal * brown dwarf * brown earth * brown falcon * brown fat * brown goods * brown hawk * brown lacewing * brown lung * brown mustard * brown note * brown paper * brown patch * brown rat * brown rice * brown rot * brown sauce * Brown Shirt * brown sugar * Brown Swiss * brown thrasher * brown trout * brown-bag * brown-bagger * browned off * brownfield * brownie * Brownie point * brownish * brownnose * brownout * brownprint * brownstone * embrown * golden brown * hash browns * meadow brown * nut-borwn * Vandyke brown

    See also

    * golding * 1000 English basic words ----

    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

    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.
  • Anagrams

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