baking

Plural: bakings

Noun

• The activity of making bread, cakes, and other baked goods.
• making bread or cake or pastry etc.
• cooking by dry heat in an oven
• An action in which something is baked.
• The way in which something is baked.
• The production of a batch of baked product.

Verb

• cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven
• prepare with dry heat in an oven
• heat by a natural force
• be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun
  • "the tourists were baking in the heat"
• present participle and gerund of bake.

Adjective Satellite

• as hot as if in an oven

Adj

• That bakes.
• Of a person, an object, or the weather: very hot; boiling, broiling, roasting.

Examples

• baking bread; baking clay
• His word-baking skills were on full display with that amazing play.
• I’m baking—could you open the window?
• I’m going to do some baking this afternoon.
• The car was baking after having been parked in the sun the whole afternoon.

Synonyms

bake, baking hot, broil

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