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Baking vs Waking - What's the difference?

baking | waking |

As verbs the difference between baking and waking

is that baking is while waking is .

As adjectives the difference between baking and waking

is that baking is intended for use in baking while waking is occurring during wakefulness.

As nouns the difference between baking and waking

is that baking is an action in which something is baked while waking is the act of becoming awake from sleep, or a period of time spent awake.

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

    waking

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Occurring during wakefulness.
  • * 1855 March, Caroline Chesebro’, “Kit”, in Graham’s Magazine , Volume 46, Number 3, page 230:
    • The city had as yet hardly drawn its first waking breath.
  • * “Alice” (possible pseudonym), quoted in Fred Penzel, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well , Oxford University Press (2000), ISBN 978-0-19-514092-7, page page 263:
    • Counting occupied my every waking thought.
  • * 2003 , Moshe Gelbein (translator), Chaim Friedlander (author), quoted in Moshe Gelbein (translator), Meir Munk (author), Searching for Comfort: Coping with Grief , Mesorah Publications, ISBN 978-1-57819-718-7, page 80:
    • It is this gift of life that we are grateful to receive each waking moment, and so we give thanks, “for our lives, which are committed to Your power.”

    Usage notes

    * This adjective most often occurs in phrases such as “every waking moment”, “every waking hour”, “every waking breath”, and so on, the sense being roughly “at all times”. Such phrases are often used together with possessives, such as in “her every waking moment” or “my every waking thought”.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of becoming awake from sleep, or a period of time spent awake.
  • * 1995 , Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (page 144)
    • there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.