baking

Pluralbakings (some meanings)

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of bake. Use it for something happening now or for the activity itself.

   She is baking bread for the whole family today.

   Baking cookies makes the kitchen smell wonderful.

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2. 2
   noununcountable

   The act of cooking food with dry heat in an oven.

   Like roasting a chicken, but for bread or cake.

   The baking of the bread filled the house with a warm smell.

   Careful baking gives a cake an even, golden crust.

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3. 3
   adjectivefiguratively

   Extremely hot, like the inside of an oven.

   As hot as the air right in front of an open oven.

   The baking sun made the sidewalk too hot to touch.

   It was baking inside the car with all the windows shut.

   Similarscorching, sweltering, boiling, roasting, blistering

   Oppositefreezing, cold

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4. 4
   nouncountable

   A batch of bread, cakes, or other food cooked at one time.

   Like one full load of laundry, but it's a batch of bread instead.

   The baking sold out within an hour at the market.

   He divided the day's baking into small boxes for the stalls.

   Similarbatch

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5. 5
   adjective

   Used for cooking food with heat, the way an oven does.

   The baking oven took twenty minutes to reach full heat.

   Large baking machines run all night at the bread factory.

6. 6
   noununcountable

   The way something is baked, like bread or a cake in an oven.

   The baking on this loaf looks uneven, with one side darker.

   Thanks to slow, even baking, the clay pots came out without a single crack.

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