BAKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does baking mean? 

• BAKING (noun)
  The noun BAKING has 2 senses:

1. making bread or cake or pastry etc.

2. cooking by dry heat in an oven

  Familiarity information: BAKING used as a noun is rare.

• BAKING (adjective)
  The adjective BAKING has 1 sense:

1. as hot as if in an oven

  Familiarity information: BAKING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Making bread or cake or pastry etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("baking" is a kind of...):

creating from raw materials (the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it)

Derivation:

bake (prepare with dry heat in an oven)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cooking by dry heat in an oven

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("baking" is a kind of...):

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "baking"):

shirring (baking shelled eggs)

Derivation:

bake (cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven)

• BAKING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

As hot as if in an oven

Synonyms:

baking; baking hot

Similar:

hot (used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning)

 Context examples 

But the formation of thunderstorms at night, when the sun is not baking the land, is less well understood.

(Scientists tackle mystery of thunderstorms that strike at night, NSF)

Then he studied the deep-lined face of the toil-worn woman before him, remembered her soups and loaves of new baking, and felt spring up in him the warmest gratitude and philanthropy.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Most cleansing solutions contain water mixed with vinegar, baking soda, or iodine.

(Douche, NCI Dictionary)

Soon the sand was baking and the resin melting in the logs of the block house.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The apples themselves are the very finest sort for baking, beyond a doubt; all from Donwell—some of Mr. Knightley's most liberal supply.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He found me in the kitchen, watching the progress of certain cakes for tea, then baking.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This was the invidious distinction between them and the Sour-doughs, who, forsooth, made their bread from sour-dough because they had no baking- powder.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I have myself directed some attention, during the past week, to the art of baking; and my son Wilkins has issued forth with a walking-stick and driven cattle, when permitted, by the rugged hirelings who had them in charge, to render any voluntary service in that direction—which I regret to say, for the credit of our nature, was not often; he being generally warned, with imprecations, to desist.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Hannah was baking.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

On occasion, in a casual sort of way, when she thought hunger pinched hardest, she would send him in a loaf of new baking, awkwardly covering the act with banter to the effect that it was better than he could bake.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)