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Basking vs Baking - What's the difference?

basking | baking |

As verbs the difference between basking and baking

is that basking is while baking is .

As nouns the difference between basking and baking

is that basking is the act of one who basks while baking is an action in which something is baked.

As an adjective baking is

intended for use in baking.

basking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * basking shark

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who basks.
  • * 1999 , Linda Simon, William James Remembered
    • With no lectures given or heard, no pups offered and ignored or contemptuously rejected by telegraph, no snatches at conversation in the midst of crowds, no baskings on the lawn at Bryn Mawr, no nothing at all, in short

    Anagrams

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    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