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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of baking.
  • noun The quantity baked at once: as, a baking of bread. Also called bake and batch.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.
  • noun The quantity baked at once; a batch.
  • noun a substitute for yeast, usually consisting of an acid, a carbonate, and a little farinaceous matter.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of bake.
  • adjective Intended for use in baking.
  • adjective figuratively Of a person, the weather, or an object, very hot.
  • noun An action in which something is baked
  • noun The way in which something is baked

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun cooking by dry heat in an oven
  • noun making bread or cake or pastry etc.
  • adjective as hot as if in an oven

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