Baking vs. Waking

Bakingverb

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Wakingadjective

Occurring during wakefulness.

Bakingadjective

That bakes.

‘baking bread’; ‘baking clay’;

Wakingnoun

The act of becoming awake from sleep, or a period of time spent awake.

Bakingadjective

(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.’;

Wakingnoun

The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake.

Bakingnoun

An action in which something is baked.

‘I'm going to do some baking this afternoon.’;

Wakingnoun

A watch; a watching.

‘In the fourth waking of the night.’;

Bakingnoun

The way in which something is baked.

Wakingnoun

the state of remaining awake;

‘days of danger and nights of waking’;

Bakingnoun

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

Wakingadjective

marked by full consciousness or alertness;

‘worked every moment of my waking hours’;

Bakingnoun

The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.

Bakingnoun

The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread.

Bakingnoun

making bread or cake or pastry etc.

Bakingnoun

cooking by dry heat in an oven

Bakingadjective

as hot as if in an oven

Baking

Baking is a method of preparing food that uses dry heat, typically in an oven, but can also be done in hot ashes, or on hot stones. The most common baked item is bread but many other types of foods are baked.