(~s, baking, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~, you spend some time preparing and mixing together ingredients to make bread, cakes, pies, or other food which is cooked in the oven.
How did you learn to ~ cakes?...
I love to ~.
VERB: no passive, V n, V
baking
On a Thursday she used to do all the baking.
N-UNCOUNT: also the N
2.
When a cake or bread ~s or when you ~ it, it cooks in the oven without any extra liquid or fat.
Bake the cake for 35 to 50 minutes...
The batter rises as it ~s.
...freshly ~d bread.
VERB: V n, V, V-ed
3.
If places or people become extremely hot because the sun is shining very strongly, you can say that they ~.
If you closed the windows you ~d...
Britain ~s in a Mediterranean heatwave.
VERB: V, V
4.
A vegetable or fish ~ is a dish that is made by chopping up and mixing together a number of ingredients and cooking them in the oven so that they form a fairly dry solid mass. (BRIT)
...an aubergine ~.
N-COUNT: usu n N
5.
see also baking