baking

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bake/beɪk/

▶verb

• 1 cook (food) by dry heat without direct exposure to a flame, typically in an oven.

• 2 (of the sun or other agency) subject to dry heat.

  ■ informal be or become extremely hot in hot weather.

▶noun

• 1 a dish consisting of a number of ingredients mixed together and baked: a vegetable bake.

• 2 N. Amer. a social gathering at which baked food of a specified kind is eaten: a clambake.

– origin OE bacan, of Gmc origin.