What's the difference between bake and brake?

Bake


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.
  • (v. t.) To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
  • (v. t.) To harden by cold.
  • (v. i.) To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes.
  • (v. i.) To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.
  • (n.) The process, or result, of baking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
  • (2) In books, Doctor Who and The Great British Bake Off were named as "standout" sales performers.
  • (3) The Great British Bake Off presenter is hardly a controversial figure.
  • (4) Fold the edges of the baking parchment down over the rim of the basin.
  • (5) Place on a large baking tray and fold over the edges to give a 1cm pastry border.
  • (6) On the programme, the bakes begin to become divorced from their function as food; they become symbols, like the cardboard cakes that were sometimes used at British weddings during the war when shortages ruled out the real thing.
  • (7) When it comes to Donald Trump, the cake is baked, and almost everything that happens – negative or positive – only serves to reinforce existing perceptions of the candidates.
  • (8) The shadow justice secretary, Sadiq Khan, said the three letters were evidence that those who really know and understand the probation services were warning the government that their plans were not only half-baked but were being rushed through at breakneck speed.
  • (9) It is up against Broadchurch, Doctor Who: Day of the Doctor, Educating Yorkshire, Gogglebox and The Great British Bake Off in this category.
  • (10) Today The Great British Bake Off (BBC1), inspired – for no special reason – by Gogglebox, which seems to have two new sofa critics.
  • (11) BBC2 will remain "broad and popular", tasked with finding "the next British Bake Off as well as the next series like the Story of the Jews".
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest This year’s Great British Bake Off semi-finalists: (clockwise from top left) Nadiya Hussain, Tamal Ray, Flora Shedden and Ian Cumming.
  • (13) Self-described "Business Barbie" Luisa Zissman already runs two successful baking businesses.
  • (14) A Staphylococcus strain was inoculated on the top and cut surfaces of freshly baked Southern custard pies which were then packaged in a pasteboard carton and held at 30 C. Daily plate counts of surface sections 0.3 inch (0.76 cm) in thickness were made.
  • (15) Technically, it can replace fat in a wide variety of foods and can be used to make cooked, baked, and fried foods lower in fat and calories.
  • (16) "I am an old lady, and have many grandchildren," she says, pointing to the gaunt, grubby faces baking around her in the tent.
  • (17) But one has a right to demand what purpose it fulfils," wrote the Times's critic, who felt that Bond's "blockishly naturalistic piece, full of dead domestic longueurs and slavishly literal bawdry", would "supply valuable ammunition to those who attack modern drama as half-baked, gratuitously violent and squalid".
  • (18) Place on a tray lined with parchment and bake for 10–12 minutes, then drizzle with syrup.
  • (19) Ruby Tandoh faced online abuse during her appearances on The Great British Bake Off – and now the 21-year-old philosophy student has been set up for a fresh mauling by the Daily Mail .
  • (20) Davis had earlier declined the privilege of specifying his final supper, so instead was given the institution's choice of grilled cheeseburgers, oven browned potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, cookies and a grape beverage.

Brake


Definition:

  • () imp. of Break.
  • (n.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern.
  • (n.) A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.
  • (v. t.) An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.
  • (v. t.) An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine.
  • (v. t.) A baker's kneading though.
  • (v. t.) A sharp bit or snaffle.
  • (v. t.) A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
  • (v. t.) That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
  • (v. t.) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
  • (v. t.) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.
  • (v. t.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine.
  • (v. t.) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
  • (v. t.) A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.
  • (v. t.) An ancient instrument of torture.
  • () of Break

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But, in a sign of tension within the coalition government, the Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, Tom Brake, told BBC2's Newsnight that "if [the offenders in question] had committed the same offence the day before the riots, they would not have received a sentence of that nature".
  • (2) He said: "Advanced economies are still confronted with high levels of public and private debt, which act as brakes on the recovery.
  • (3) With skills and labour shortages set to continue, there’s a risk that many vacancies will be left unfilled which could act as a brake on output growth in the UK in the years ahead.” The most recent labour market data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that while EU nationals were still arriving in the UK, they were doing so in smaller numbers than in the past.
  • (4) Koehler confirmed German media reports that the truck had apparently been slowed by an automatic braking system, bringing it to a standstill after 70 to 80 metres (230-260ft) and preventing worse carnage.
  • (5) Motor-perceptual performance was measured in terms of reaction times taken by subjects to carry out steering, braking and operation of traffic indicators in the simulator.
  • (6) The technology is also there for green-laning, says Everett – intelligent traffic lights that recognise where traffic is coming from, allowing cars to flow more freely and cutting down on unnecessary braking and restarting, which wastes energy.
  • (7) Trade-offs among competing selective demands exert the only brake upon perfection; non-optimality is thereby rendered as a result of adaptation as well.
  • (8) Decc now proposes to include an "emergency brake" mechanism which would close the RHI scheme down as payments approached pre-set levels.
  • (9) Simulated braking responses have been tested in relation to blood carboxyhemoglobin (HbCO) levels.
  • (10) The results during wakefulness indicate that the TA contributes to an active adduction of the vocal cords in expiration and suggest the presence of an active laryngeal braking mechanism during exhalation.
  • (11) The chancellor stressed that Britain’s relationship with the EU would remain unchanged for the time being – and ditched the idea, launched alongside his predecessor Alistair Darling during the campaign – that an emergency budget would be necessary within weeks, as Brexit slams the brakes on the economy.
  • (12) My assembly report, Braking Point , showed the big advantages of making 20mph the default speed limit for urban areas and, as the previous mayor's road safety ambassador, I pressed for the adoption of the zero-casualty approach applied in Scandinavian countries.
  • (13) The eastern European nations balked at the “emergency brake” on benefits to EU migrants.
  • (14) The perturbation consisted of a braking of the treadmill at different phases in the step cycle.
  • (15) An automatic control system has been integrated in an electronically braked bicycle ergometer, and a pedal unit from Rodby Electronic bicycle ergometer RE 820 has been coupled to a modified test wheelchair.
  • (16) Here are 10 things that could put the brakes on your mortgage hopes, and how to try and fix them.
  • (17) Scientists say the drug works by taking the brakes off the immune system.
  • (18) Less than two months after his arrival at Tesco, Lewis has already put the brakes on three stores as he examines “all aspects of the group in order to improve its competitive position and deliver attractive, sustainable returns for shareholders”.
  • (19) While the case would bring publicity to the issue of the rights or interests of "non-human persons", something for which some people have been arguing for a long time, if the case fails and there is then case law history against recognising those rights, that would not be helpful for the cause, Brakes warned.
  • (20) Exercise testing was performed with an electrically braked bicycle ergometer in the supine position, and the load was increased by 25 or 50 watts every two minutes until fatigue, severe angina, more than 0.3 mV ST-segment depression, or 80% of the age predicted maximum heart rate was achieved.

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