different between bake vs barbecue

English

Etymology

From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, from Proto-Germanic *bakan? (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?g- (“to roast, bake”).

Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Norwegian Bokmål bake (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek ???? (ph?g?, “roast”, verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k

Verb

bake (third-person singular simple present bakes, present participle baking, simple past baked or (dialectal) book, past participle baked or (dialectal) baken)

1. (ditransitive or intransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven.

   I baked a delicious cherry pie.

   She's been baking all day to prepare for the dinner.

2. (intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.

   The cake baked at 350°F.

3. (intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.

   The clay baked in the sun.

4. (transitive) To dry by heat.

   They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture.

5. (intransitive, figuratively) To be hot.

   It is baking in the greenhouse.

   I'm baking after that workout in the gym.

6. (transitive, figuratively) To cause to be hot.
7. (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
8. (transitive, obsolete) To harden by cold.
9. (computer graphics, transitive) To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
10. (figuratively, with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.
    • 2014, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security, Airline Industry Consolidation: Hearing (page 36)

      Disagreements between pilots' unions are baked into the merger cake.

    • 2016, David B. Woolner, John M. Thompson, Progressivism in America: Past, Present and Future (page 100)

      Many of the causes of governmental dysfunction are simply baked into the cake of American politics and will never change.

Usage notes

In the dialects of northern England, the simple past book and past participle baken are sometimes encountered.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:cook

Derived terms

Related terms

• roast

Translations

Noun

bake (plural bakes)

1. The act of cooking food by baking.
2. (especially Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
   • 2009, Dictionary of Food: International Food and Cooking Terms from A to Z ?ISBN:

     A fish bake made with cod chunks, sliced parboiled potatoes, […]

   • 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.

3. Any food item that is baked.
   • 2016, Annie Rigg, Great British Bake Off: Children's Party Cakes & Bakes:

     Baking parchment should not be confused with greaseproof paper — the former has a non-stick coating and will ensure that your bakes lift out of the tin or off the baking sheets easily, the latter will have the opposite effect!

4. (US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
   • 1904, Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology:

     The central episode is the temporary burial of the novitiate; a shallow pit is excavated, and in this a fire is made, as for a fish bake; […]

   • 1939, The American Photo-engraver, volume 31, page 289:

     I am about to launch a scheme for our local to invest a few dollars in a spot where the boys will know where to find company and pass a few hours or a week-end out in the fresh air and partake of shrimp bakes or fish fries and so forget the on-creeping years.

   • 2006, Jeffery P. Sandman, Peter R. Sandman, Soaring and Gliding: The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Area:

     […] also featured a fish bake, a dance, and a beach party[.]

5. (Barbados, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten in Barbados and sometimes elsewhere, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or in some places sometimes roasted).
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:bake.

Translations

Anagrams

• Baek, beak, beka

Basque

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ba.ke/

Etymology 1

From Latin p?x, p?cem.

Noun

bake inan

1. peace
2. tranquillity, serenity

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

bake

1. Infinitive of baketu.

Further reading

• “bake” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
• “bake” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

Middle English

Etymology 1

Unknown; see bakke for more.

Noun

bake (plural bakes)

1. Alternative form of bakke (“bat”)

Etymology 2

From Old English bacan.

Verb

bake

1. Alternative form of baken (“to bake”)

Etymology 3

From baken, the past participle of the above verb.

Noun

bake

1. Alternative form of baken (“meal involving pastry”)

Etymology 4

From Old English bæc.

Noun

bake

1. Alternative form of bak

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse baka

Verb

bake (imperative bak, present tense baker, passive bakes, simple past bakte, past participle bakt)

1. to bake (something)

Derived terms

• bakebolle
• bakepapir
• bakepulver

Related terms

• baker (noun)
• baking

References

• “bake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• baka

Etymology

From Old Norse baka

Verb

bake (present tense bakar or baker, past tense baka or bakte, past participle baka or bakt, passive infinitive bakast, present participle bakande, imperative bak)

1. to bake (something)

Derived terms

• bakebolle
• bakepapir
• bakepulver

Related terms

• bakar (noun)
• baking

References

• “bake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

bake (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. inflection of baka:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Wolio

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ake/

Noun

bake

1. heart
2. fruit

References

• Anceaux, Johannes C. 1987. Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia). Dordrecht: Foris.

English

Alternative forms

• (apparatus; event; meat): barbeque; bar-be-que, bar-b-que, bar-B-Q, bar-b-q (informal forms based on the abbreviation)
• (apparatus; event): barbie (Australia, NZ, UK, informal abbreviation)
• (event; meat): BBQ (informal abbreviation)
• (meat): 'cue, 'que, que (US, informal shortenings)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish barbacoa, from Taíno barbakoa (“framework of sticks”), the raised wooden structure the natives used to either sleep on or cure meat. Originally “meal of roasted meat or fish”. Doublet of barbacoa.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??b??kju?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b??b??kju/
• Hyphenation: bar?be?cue

Noun

barbecue (countable and uncountable, plural barbecues)

1. A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.

   Coordinate terms: grill, boucan

   We cooked our food on the barbecue.

2. A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.

   We're having a barbecue on Saturday, and you're invited.

3. 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.

4. (dated) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
5. 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.

6. (obsolete) A framework of sticks.
   • 1705, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions, Volume 2, London: James Knapton, “A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World,” Chapter 5, p. 90,^[1]

     We found no Houses of Entertainment on the Road, yet at every Village we came we got Houseroom, and a Barbacue of split Bambooes to sleep on.

Synonyms

• (grill): braai (South African English), buccan, compare grill
• (event): braai (South African English), cookout

Derived terms

• barbecue sauce
• barbie
• BBQ

Related terms

• barbacoa

Translations

Verb

barbecue (third-person singular simple present barbecues, present participle barbecuing or barbecueing, simple past and past participle barbecued)

1. To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
2. To grill.

Synonyms

• (grill, barbecue): braai (South African English)

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English barbecue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?rb?kju/
• Hyphenation: bar?be?cue

Noun

barbecue m (plural barbecues, diminutive barbecuetje n)

1. barbecue

Derived terms

• barbecueën/barbecuen

Verb

barbecue

1. first-person singular present indicative of barbecueën
2. imperative of barbecueën
3. first-person singular present indicative of barbecuen
4. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of barbecuen
5. imperative of barbecuen

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English barbecue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?.b?.ky/

Noun

barbecue m (plural barbecues)

1. barbecue

Further reading

• “barbecue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Polish

Etymology

From English barbecue, from Spanish barbacoa, from Taíno barbakoa (“framework of sticks”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bar?b?k.ju/

Noun

barbecue n (indeclinable)

1. barbecue (cooking instrument)

   Synonyms: ruszt, grill

2. barbecue (meal)

   Synonym: grill

3. barbecue sauce

Further reading

• barbecue in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• barbecue in Polish dictionaries at PWN