baking

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/ˈbeɪkɪŋ(ɡ)/

noun 3adj 2

Collocations

ADJ.

all, delicious, fanatic, hot, open

My grandmother was a baking fanatic who spent every weekend perfecting her bread recipes.

VERB + BAKING

am, box, cake, cakes, love, need, spent, thank

I love baking cakes on Sunday mornings with my children.

BAKING + NOUN

afternoon, bread, clay, cookies, glaze, kitchen, pizza, powder

My mother spent the baking afternoon making chocolate chip cookies for the school fair.

PREP.

after, in, in, on

The kitchen smelled wonderful after baking chocolate chip cookies all afternoon.

ADV.

then

I put the cake in the oven and then baking took about thirty minutes.

Definitions

adj

That bakes.

baking bread; baking clay

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.

noun

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.

The way in which something is baked.

How often have we risen in the morning, after spending the night in this manner, with a feeling akin to that which we fancy would come from being knocked in the head with a sack of meal, then gently stewed, and all out of pure fraternal regard to supply any deficiencies in our original bakings.

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.

The production of a batch of baked product.

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Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

baking hot

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see baking, hot: very hot in a way that involves baking (in an oven or as if in an oven).

Near-synonyms: roasting, baked

Example Bank

baking bread; baking clay

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I’m baking—could you open the window?

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The car was baking after having been parked in the sun the whole afternoon.

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I’m going to do some baking this afternoon.

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Upon these terms, after working hard all day for her mistress, she began her midnight bakings, assisted by her two oldest children.

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Usage Notes

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