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Baking vs Bakery - What's the difference?

baking | bakery |

As nouns the difference between baking and bakery

is that baking is an action in which something is baked while bakery is a shop in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.

As a verb baking

is .

As an adjective baking

is intended for use in baking.

baking

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Intended for use in baking.
  • Here is a baking tray for the cookies.
  • (figuratively) Of a person, the weather, or an object, very hot.
  • I'm baking - could you open the window?

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An action in which something is baked
  • I'm going to do some baking this afternoon.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1861, author=Harriet Jacobs (AKA Linda Brent), title=Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Upon these terms, after working hard all day for her mistress, she began her midnight bakings , assisted by her two oldest children. }}
  • The way in which something is baked
  • * {{quote-book, year=1871, author=Ledyard Bill, title=Minnesota; Its Character and Climate, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=How often have we risen in the morning, after spending the night in this manner, with a feeling akin to that which we fancy would come from being knocked in the head with a sack of meal, then gently stewed, and all out of pure fraternal regard to supply any deficiencies in our original bakings . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Captain R. F. Scott, title=Scott's Last Expedition Volume I, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Clissold's work of cooking has fallen on Hooper and Lashly, and it is satisfactory to find that the various dishes and bread bakings maintain their excellence. }}

    Derived terms

    * baking hot * baking tin * baking tray

    bakery

    English

    Noun

    (bakeries)
  • A shop in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.
  • The trade of a baker.
  • Synonyms

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