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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Baking \Bak"ing\, n.
     1. The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and
        hardening by heat or cold.
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     2. The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of


        bread.
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     {Baking powder}, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting
        of an acid, a carbonate, and a little farinaceous matter.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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     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.
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     2. To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to
        bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
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     3. To harden by cold.
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              The earth . . . is baked with frost.  --Shak.
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              They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone.
                                                    --Spenser.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  baking
       adj : as hot as if in an oven [syn: {baking hot}]
       n 1: making bread or cake or pastry etc.
       2: cooking by dry heat in an oven

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  60 Moby Thesaurus words for "baking":
     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
  
  

















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