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Definitions for Baking

[1] to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.
[2] to harden by heat: to bake pottery in a kiln.
[3] to dry by, or subject to heat: The sun baked the land.
[4] to bake bread, a casserole, etc.
[5] to become baked: The cake will bake in about half an hour.
[6] to be subjected to heat: The lizard baked on the hot rocks.
[7] a social occasion at which the chief food is baked.
[8] Scot. cracker(def 1) .
[9] bake in /into , Computers . to incorporate (a feature) as part of a system or piece of software or hardware while it is still in development: The location-tracking service is baked in the new app. Security features come baked into the operating system. to include as an inseparable or permanent part: Baked into the price of the product is the cost of advertising.
[10] the process of cooking bread, cakes, etc (as modifier ) a baking dish
[11] the bread, cakes, etc, cooked at one time
[12] (esp of weather) very hot and dry
[13] (tr) to cook by dry heat in or as if in an oven
[14] (intr) to cook bread, pastry, etc, in an oven
[15] to make or become hardened by heat
[16] (intr) informal to be extremely hot, as in the heat of the sun
[17] US a party at which the main dish is baked
[18] a batch of things baked at one time
[19] Scot a kind of biscuit
[20] Caribbean a small flat fried cake

Words related to Baking

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Origin of Baking

ebefore 1000; Middle English baken, Old English bacan, past participle bōc baked; cognate with Old High German bahhan, past buoh, Old Norse baka; akin to Dutch bakken, German backen, Greek phṓgein to roast; < IE alternating base *bheHo g-, bhəg-

Other words from Baking

out·bake , verb (used with object), out·baked, out·bak·ing.
o·ver·bake , verb, o·ver·baked, o·ver·bak·ing.
pre·bake , verb, pre·baked, pre·bak·ing.
re·bake , verb (used with object), re·baked, re·bak·ing.
un·baked , adjective
un·der·bake , verb (used with object), un·der·baked, un·der·bak·ing.
well-baked , adjective

Word origin for Baking

eOld English bacan ; related to Old Norse baka , Old High German bahhan to bake, Greek phōgein to parch, roast

Synonyms for Baking

blistering, boiling, red-hot, scorching, searing, sizzling, sweltering, broiling, burning, roasting, scalding, steaming, ardent, baking hot, fiery, hot, piping hot, sultry, uncomfortably warm, very warm