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BAKING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
Sense 2
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)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
As hot as if in an oven
Synonyms:
baking; baking hot
Classified under:
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)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb bake
Context examples:
Sit there, she said, placing me on the sofa, while we take our things off and get the tea ready; it is another privilege we exercise in our little moorland home—to prepare our own meals when we are so inclined, or when Hannah is baking, brewing, washing, or ironing.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"But there's a garage right here," objected Jordan. "I don't want to get stalled in this baking heat."
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
