Baking vs. Waking — What's the Difference?

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.

Marked by full consciousness, awareness, and alertness

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

Occurring during wakefulness.

To harden or dry (something) by subjecting to heat in or as if in an oven

Present participle of wake

To cook food with dry heat.

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

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

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

The act or process of baking.

A watch; a watching.

An amount baked.

The state of remaining awake;

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

Marked by full consciousness or alertness;

Present participle of bake.

That bakes.

(figuratively) Of a person, an object, or the weather: very hot; boiling, broiling, roasting.

An action in which something is baked.

The way in which something is baked.

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

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

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

Making bread or cake or pastry etc.

Cooking by dry heat in an oven

As hot as if in an oven