'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

Words containing 'Baking'