baking
/'beikiɳ/
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Definition
Noun:
- The process of cooking food by dry heat in an oven: The action or method of preparing food, especially items like bread, cakes, or pastries, using the consistent, dry heat of an oven.
- A batch of food cooked in this way: A quantity of food produced by one session of baking.
Adjective:
- Extremely hot: Used informally to describe a temperature or weather condition that is intensely and unpleasantly hot, as if in an oven.
Usage and Examples
Noun:
- The baking of the bread filled the house with a wonderful aroma.
- She took the first baking of cookies out of the oven.
Adjective:
- We sought shade from the baking sun.
- It's baking in here; can we turn on the air conditioning?
Advanced Usage
- "baking hot": An emphatic phrase used to describe extremely high temperatures.
- The desert sand was baking hot at noon.
Variants and Related Words
- Bake (verb): To cook food in an oven using dry heat.
- I will bake a cake for the party.
- Baked (adjective): Describes food that has been cooked by baking.
- We had baked potatoes with dinner.
- Baker (noun): A person whose trade is baking bread, cakes, etc.
- Bakery (noun): A place where bread, cakes, and pastries are baked or sold.
Synonyms
- Roasting (for the adjective sense of extreme heat).
- Scorching (for the adjective sense of extreme heat).
- Oven-cooking (for the noun sense of the cooking process).
Related Phrases and Collocations
- Baking powder/soda: Leavening agents used in baking.
- Baking sheet/tray: A flat metal tray used for baking.
- Baking dish: A dish, often ceramic or glass, designed for use in an oven.
Noun
- cooking by dry heat in an oven
- making bread or cake or pastry etc.