baking

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   present participle and gerund of bake.

2. 2

   That bakes.

   • baking bread; baking clay
3. 3

   Of a person, an object, or the weather

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

   • I’m baking—could you open the window?
   • The car was baking after having been parked in the sun the whole afternoon.
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   1. 4

      An action in which something is baked.

      • I’m going to do some baking this afternoon.
      • Upon these terms, after working hard all day for her mistress, she began her midnight bakings, assisted by her two oldest children.
   2. 5

      The way in which something is baked.

      • Clissold’s work of cooking has fallen on Hooper and Lashly, and it is satisfactory to find that the various dishes and bread bakings maintain their excellence.
   3. 6

      The production of a batch of baked product.

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