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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.
n.
1.
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)n
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 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" |
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baking
adjective scorching, burning, heated, boiling, roasting, searing, blistering, torrid, sultry, sweltering the baking Jordanian desert
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baking
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Translations
pečení
bagning
leivonta
pečenje
sütés
bakstur
ベーキング
굽기
pečenie
ugnsstekning
การอบ
sự nướng bánh mì
baking
[ˈbeɪkɪŋ]A. N
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
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
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
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
baking
[ˈbeɪkɪŋ] n
(= activity) I enjoy baking (cakes) → j'aime faire des gâteaux; (bread) → j'aime faire du pain
(= cakes) → gâteaux mpl
baking hot [sun, day] → torride
It's baking hot today → Il fait une chaleur torride aujourd'hui.baking dish n → plat m allant au fourbaking powder n → levure f chimiquebaking sheet n → plaque f pour le fourbaking soda n → bicarbonate m de soudebaking tin n (for cake) → moule m à gâteauxbaking tray n → plaque f pour le four
It's baking hot today → Il fait une chaleur torride aujourd'hui.baking dish n → plat m allant au fourbaking powder n → levure f chimiquebaking sheet n → plaque f pour le fourbaking soda n → bicarbonate m de soudebaking tin n (for cake) → moule m à gâteauxbaking tray n → plaque f pour le four
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
baking
n
(act) (Cook) → Backen nt; (of earthenware) → Brennen nt; it’s our own baking → das ist selbst gebacken
(batch: of bread, of bricks etc) → Ofenladung f, → Schub m
adj (inf: = stifling, roasting) I’m baking → ich komme um vor Hitze; it’s baking (hot) today → es ist eine Affenhitze heute (inf)
baking
:baking day
n → Backtag m
baking dish
n → Backform f
baking mitt
n (US) → Topfhandschuh m
baking pan
n (US) → Backblech nt
baking powder
n → Backpulver nt
baking sheet
n → Back- or Plätzchenblech nt
baking soda
n → ˜ Backpulver nt
baking tin
n (Brit) → Backform f
baking tray
n (Brit) → Kuchenblech nt
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
baking
[ˈbeɪkɪŋ]1. n → cottura (al forno)
Monday was her day for doing the baking → il lunedì faceva il pane (e/o i dolci)
Monday was her day for doing the baking → il lunedì faceva il pane (e/o i dolci)
2. adj (fam) (hot) it's baking in here → qui dentro è un forno
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
bake
(beik) verb1. to cook in an oven. I'm going to bake (bread) today; She baked the ham.
2. to dry or harden by heat. The sun is baking the ground dry.
baked adjectivebaked ham; freshly baked bread.
ˈbaker noun1. a person who bakes. He is a qualified baker; She is a good baker.
2. a baker's shop.
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.
ˈbaking noun the act or art of cooking bread, cakes etc.
baking powder a powder used to make cakes etc rise. This sponge cake is very flat – you can't have used enough baking powder.
a baker's dozen thirteen.
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baking
→ خَبْز pečení bagning Backen ψήσιμο del horno, hornear leivonta cuisson au four pečenje cottura al forno ベーキング 굽기 bakken baking pieczenie cozedura выпекание ugnsstekning การอบ fırında pişirme sự nướng bánh mì 烘焙Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009