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baking
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baking
Verb
  • present participle of bake.
Adjective
  • Of a person, an object, or the weather: very hot; boiling, broiling, roasting. figuratively
Noun
  • An action in which something is baked.
  • The way in which something is baked.
  • The production of a batch of baked product. countable
bake
Verb
  • To cook (something) in an oven. transitive or intransitive
  • To dry by heat. transitive
  • To prepare food by baking it. intransitive
  • To be baked to heating or drying. intransitive
  • To be hot. intransitive, figuratively
  • To smoke marijuana. intransitive, slang
  • To harden by cold.
  • To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance. computer graphics, transitive
Noun
  • The act of cooking food by baking.
  • Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole. chiefly Britain, New Zealand
  • A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served. US
  • A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten in Barbados and sometimes elsewhere, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or in some places sometimes roasted). Barbados, sometimes US and UK