baking

English

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baking

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle English bakynge; equivalent to bake +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪkɪŋ(ɡ)/

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• Rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ

Verb

baking

1. present participle and gerund of bake.

Adjective

baking (not comparable)

1. That bakes.

   baking bread; baking clay

2. (figuratively) Of a person, an object, or the weather: very hot; boiling, broiling, roasting.

   I’m baking—could you open the window?

   The car was baking after having been parked in the sun the whole afternoon.

Noun

baking (usually uncountable, plural bakings)

1. An action in which something is baked.

   I’m going to do some baking this afternoon.

   • 1861, Harriet Jacobs (Linda Brent), Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl‎:

     Upon these terms, after working hard all day for her mistress, she began her midnight bakings, assisted by her two oldest children.

2. The way in which something is baked.
   • 1871, Ledyard Bill, Minnesota; Its Character and Climate‎:

     How often have we risen in the morning, after spending the night in this manner, with a feeling akin to that which we fancy would come from being knocked in the head with a sack of meal, then gently stewed, and all out of pure fraternal regard to supply any deficiencies in our original bakings.

   • 1913, Captain R. F. Scott, Scott’s Last Expedition Volume I‎:

     Clissold’s work of cooking has fallen on Hooper and Lashly, and it is satisfactory to find that the various dishes and bread bakings maintain their excellence.

3. (countable) The production of a batch of baked product.

Derived terms

• bakingly
• baking pan
• bakingware
• nonbaking
• procrastibaking

 

Translations

action in which something is baked

Arabic: خَبْز (ar) m (ḵabz) Chinese: Mandarin: 烤 (zh) (kǎo), 烘 (zh) (hōng), 焙燒／焙烧 (zh) (bèishāo), 烘烤 (zh) (hōngkǎo) Czech: pečení (cs) n Danish: bagning c Finnish: leipominen (fi) French: cuisson (fr) f Georgian: გამოცხობა (gamocxoba), ცხობა (cxoba) German: Backen (de) n Greek: ψήσιμο (el) n (psísimo) Japanese: 焼くこと (ja) (やくこと, yaku koto) Maori: tunumanga parāoa Norwegian: Bokmål: baking (no) m or f Nynorsk: baking f Portuguese: assamento m Quechua: chaya Russian: вы́печка (ru) f (výpečka), выпека́ние (ru) n (vypekánije) Spanish: panpasteleo m Swahili: uokaji Swedish: bakning (sv) c Ukrainian: випікання c or n (vypikannja) Zazaki: adırnayen

Derived terms

• baking board
• baking chocolate
• baking hot
• baking mat
• baking paper
• baking parchment
• baking powder
• baking sheet
• baking soda
• baking stone
• baking tin
• baking tray
• pie baking
• pie-baking
• pre-baking

 

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

baking

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

From bake +‎ -ing.

Noun

baking m or f (definite singular bakinga or bakingen)

1. baking

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From bake +‎ -ing.

Noun

baking f (definite singular bakinga)

1. baking