You can use baking to describe weather or a place that is very hot indeed.
...a baking July day.
The coffins stood in the baking heat surrounded by mourners.
...the baking Jordanian desert.
Synonyms: scorching, burning, heated, boiling More Synonyms of baking
Baking is also an adverb.
...the baking hot summer of 1969.
2. See also bake
baking in British English
(ˈbeɪkɪŋ)
noun
1.
a.
the process of cooking bread, cakes, etc
b.
(as modifier)
a baking dish
2.
the bread, cakes, etc, cooked at one time
adjective
3.
(esp of weather) very hot and dry
Examples of 'baking' in a sentence
baking
There was a roast of venison in the oven and yams baking in the hearth's embers, the smell permeating the small cabin.
Terman, Douglas CORMORANT (2004)
The woman smiled and asked whether they ever did any cooking, baking, and house cleaning at home.
Keene, Carolyn THE WITCH TREE SYMBOL (2004)
Word lists with
baking
Weather descriptions
In other languages
baking
British English: baking /ˈbeɪkɪŋ/ NOUN
Baking is the activity of cooking bread or cakes in an oven.
The children want to do some baking.
American English: baking
Arabic: خَبْز
Brazilian Portuguese: cozedura
Chinese: 烘焙
Croatian: pečenje
Czech: pečení
Danish: bagning
Dutch: bakken
European Spanish: hornear
Finnish: leivonta
French: cuisson au four
German: Backen
Greek: ψήσιμο
Italian: cottura al forno
Japanese: ベーキング
Korean: 굽기 요리
Norwegian: baking
Polish: pieczenie
European Portuguese: cozedura
Romanian: coacere
Russian: выпекание
Latin American Spanish: del horno
Swedish: ugnsstekning
Thai: การอบ
Turkish: fırında pişirme
Ukrainian: випікання
Vietnamese: sự nướng bánh mì
All related terms of 'baking'
bake
If you bake , you spend some time preparing and mixing together ingredients to make bread, cakes, pies , or other food which is cooked in the oven.
baking dish
a usually ceramic dish in which items can be baked
baking soda
Baking soda is the same as → bicarbonate of soda .
baking tin
an open metal container in which dough , cake mixture etc can be placed for baking
baking tray
A baking tray is the same as a → baking sheet .
home baking
such things as bread , cakes and biscuits that are baked at home
baking powder
Baking powder is an ingredient used in cake making. It causes cakes to rise when they are in the oven .
baking sheet
A baking sheet is a flat piece of metal on which you bake foods such as biscuits or pies in an oven .
bake in
to include (a feature ) as an integral part of a computer's operating system
sodium bicarbonate
a white crystalline soluble compound usually obtained by the Solvay process and used in effervescent drinks, baking powders , fire extinguishers, and in medicine as an antacid ; sodium hydrogen carbonate . Formula: NaHCO 3
Chinese translation of 'baking'
baking
(ˈbeɪkɪŋ)
n(u)
(= activity) 烤食品 (kǎo shípǐn)
(= cakes, bread) 烘烤的面(麵)食 (hōngkǎo de miànshí)
adj
(inf, = hot) 灼热(熱)的 (zhuórè de)
baking hot炎热(熱) (yánrè)
bake
(beɪk)
vt
[potatoes, cake, bread]烤 (kǎo)
[clay]烤硬 (kǎoyìng)
vi
[bread, cake etc]烤 (kǎo)
(= make cakes etc)[person]烘烤食品 (hōngkǎo shípǐn)
see usage note
cook
(adjective)
the baking Jordanian desert
Synonyms
scorching
It was a scorching day.
burning
the burning desert of central Asia
heated
boiling
It's boiling in here.
roasting
Not all of Britain was roasting in the nineties today.
searing
blistering
a blistering summer day
torrid
the torrid heat of summer in Spain
sultry
sweltering
It was an unimpressive contest in sweltering heat.