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bake

(bāk)

v. baked, bak·ing, bakes

v.tr.

1. To cook (food) with dry heat, especially in an oven.

2. To harden or dry (something) by subjecting to heat in or as if in an oven: bake bricks.

v.intr.

1. To cook food with dry heat.

2. To become hardened or dry by or as if by having been subjected to the heat of an oven.

a. The act or process of baking.

b. An amount baked.

2. A social gathering at which food is cooked by baking and then served.

[Middle English baken, from Old English bacan.]

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baking

(ˈbeɪkɪŋ)

1. (Cookery)

a. the process of cooking bread, cakes, etc

b. (as modifier): a baking dish.

2. (Cookery) the bread, cakes, etc, cooked at one time

adj

(esp of weather) very hot and dry

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Noun	1.	baking - making bread or cake or pastry etc. creating from raw materials - the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it
	2.	baking - cooking by dry heat in an oven cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" shirring - baking shelled eggs
Adj.	1.	baking - as hot as if in an oven baking hot hot - used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning; "hot stove"; "hot water"; "a hot August day"; "a hot stuffy room"; "she's hot and tired"; "a hot forehead"

baking

adjective scorching, burning, heated, boiling, roasting, searing, blistering, torrid, sultry, sweltering the baking Jordanian desert

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baking

adjective

Marked by much heat:

ardent, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, fiery, heated, hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sizzling, sultry, sweltering, torrid.

Translations

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del horno hornear

baking

[ˈbeɪkɪŋ]

A. N

1. (= activity) she does the baking on Monday → los lunes hace el pan/los pasteles

2. (= batch) → hornada f

B. ADJ (= hot) it's baking (hot) in here → esto es un horno
a baking hot day → un día de calor asfixiante

C. CPD baking chocolate N (US) → chocolate m fondant
baking dish N → fuente f para el horno
baking pan N = baking tin baking powder N → Royal ® m, levadura f en polvo (Sp)
baking sheet N = baking tray baking soda N → bicarbonato m de soda
baking tin N → molde m (para el horno)
baking tray N → bandeja f de horno

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bake

(beik) verb

1. to cook in an oven. I'm going to bake (bread) today; She baked the ham.cocer al horno

2. to dry or harden by heat. The sun is baking the ground dry.resecar

baked adjective

baked ham; freshly baked bread.cocido; horneado

ˈbaker noun

1. a person who bakes. He is a qualified baker; She is a good baker.panadero

2. a baker's shop. panadería

ˈbakery – plural ˈbakeries – noun

a place where baking is done and / or where bread, cakes etc are sold. I bought some cakes at the bakery.panadería

ˈbaking noun

the act or art of cooking bread, cakes etc. pastelería

baking powder

a powder used to make cakes etc rise. This sponge cake is very flat – you can't have used enough baking powder. polvos de levadura

a baker's dozen

thirteen. docena de fraile

baking

→ del horno , hornear

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Hiram Sloane told me the other day that a big envelope addressed to the Rollings Reliable Baking Powder Company of Montreal had been dropped into the post office box a month ago, and she suspicioned that somebody was trying for the prize they'd offered for the best story that introduced the name of their baking powder.

I think it would be perfectly disgraceful to write a story to advertise a baking powder.

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I don't like to be suspicious or talk scandal, but sometimes I think the Jumbles have too much baking powder in them."

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The apples themselves are the very finest sort for baking, beyond a doubt; all from Donwellsome of Mr.

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And George and Tom moved to a comfortable seat in the chimney-corner, while Aunte Chloe, after baking a goodly pile of cakes, took her baby on her lap, and began alternately filling its mouth and her own, and distributing to Mose and Pete, who seemed rather to prefer eating theirs as they rolled about on the floor under the table, tickling each other, and occasionally pulling the baby's toes.

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"United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company.

There was a great bustle in Bishopsgate Street Within, as they drew up, and (it being a windy day) half-a-dozen men were tacking across the road under a press of paper, bearing gigantic announcements that a Public Meeting would be holden at one o'clock precisely, to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament in favour of the United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company, capital five millions, in five hundred thousand shares of ten pounds each; which sums were duly set forth in fat black figures of considerable size.

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The baking part was the next thing to be considered, and how I should make bread when I came to have corn; for first, I had no yeast.

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On occasion, in a casual sort of way, when she thought hunger pinched hardest, she would send him in a loaf of new baking, awkwardly covering the act with banter to the effect that it was better than he could bake.

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On baking day she determined to shut them up in a cupboard.

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Hannah was baking. Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

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DAN:--"He's the man who told mother once that he always made his own iodine out of strong tea and baking soda."

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