Sakes vs Bakes - What's the difference?
sakes | bakes |
, meaning benefit.
, referring to a Japanese rice wine.
(bake)
(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 a noun sakes
is .As a verb bakes is
(bake).sakes
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(head)- For all our sakes , please let us pass.
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
* * sakisNoun
(head)- The sailor tried several different sakes before he passed out.
bakes
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----bake
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.