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Taking vs Baking - What's the difference?

taking | baking |

As adjectives the difference between taking and baking

is that taking is alluring; attractive while baking is intended for use in baking.

As nouns the difference between taking and baking

is that taking is the act by which something is taken while baking is an action in which something is baked.

As verbs the difference between taking and baking

is that taking is while baking is .

taking

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • alluring; attractive.
  • * Fuller
  • subtile in making his temptations most taking
  • (obsolete) infectious; contagious
  • (Beaumont and Fletcher)

    Noun

  • The act by which something is taken.
  • * 2010 , Ian Ayres, Optional Law: The Structure of Legal Entitlements (page 75)
  • Second, they argue that giving the original owner a take-back option might lead to an infinite sequence of takings and retakings if the exercise price for the take-back option (i.e., the damages assessed at each round) is set too low.
  • (uncountable) A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
  • (uncountable) An apprehension.
  • (countable) That which has been gained.
  • Count the shop's takings .

    Verb

    (head)
  • *
  • *:Athelstan Arundel walked home […], foaming and raging.He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
  • Derived terms

    * for the taking

    See also

    * takings

    Statistics

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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