'Baking' definitions:
Definition of 'baking'
From: WordNet
adjective
As hot as if in an oven [syn: baking, baking hot]
noun
Making bread or cake or pastry etc.
noun
Cooking by dry heat in an oven
Definition of 'Baking'
From: GCIDE
- Bake \Bake\ (b[=a]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Baked (b[=a]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Baking.] [AS. bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG. bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baka, Dan. bage, Gr. fw`gein to roast.]
- 1. To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Baking is the term usually applied to that method of cooking which exhausts the moisture in food more than roasting or broiling; but the distinction of meaning between roasting and baking is not always observed. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To harden by cold. [1913 Webster]
- The earth . . . is baked with frost. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Baking'
From: GCIDE
- Baking \Bak"ing\, n.
- 1. The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread. [1913 Webster]
- Baking powder, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting of an acid, a carbonate, and a little farinaceous matter. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'baking'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ardent,
- barbecuing,
- basting,
- blistering,
- boiling,
- braising,
- brewing,
- broil,
- broiling,
- burning,
- burning hot,
- canicular,
- catering,
- cookery,
- cooking,
- cuisine,
- culinary science,
- domestic science,
- ebullient,
- feverish,
- fiery,
- flushed,
- frying,
- grilling,
- heated,
- home economics,
- hot,
- hot as fire,
- hot as hell,
- like a furnace,
- like an oven,
- nutrition,
- overheated,
- overwarm,
- pan-broiling,
- parching,
- piping hot,
- poaching,
- red-hot,
- roasting,
- sauteing,
- scalding,
- scorching,
- searing,
- seething,
- shirring,
- simmering,
- sizzling,
- sizzling hot,
- smoking hot,
- steeping,
- stewing,
- sudorific,
- sweating,
- sweaty,
- sweltering,
- sweltry,
- toasting,
- torrid,
- white-hot