different between baking vs baying

English

Etymology

From Middle English bakynge; equivalent to bake +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?be?k??(?)/
• Rhymes: -e?k??

Verb

baking

1. present participle of bake.

Adjective

baking (not comparable)

1. That bakes.

2. (figuratively) Of a person, an object, or the weather: very hot; boiling, broiling, roasting.

Noun

baking (usually uncountable, plural bakings)

1. An action in which something is baked.
2. The way in which something is baked.
3. (countable) The production of a batch of baked product.

Translations

Derived terms

• baking hot
• baking tin
• baking tray

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From bake +? -ing

Noun

baking m or f (definite singular bakinga or bakingen)

1. baking

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From bake +? -ing

Noun

baking f (definite singular bakinga)

1. baking

English

Verb

baying

1. present participle of bay

   The mob approached the castle, baying for royal blood.

Noun

baying (plural bayings)

1. Action of the verb to bay; howling.

   She quickly grew weary of the beast's constant baying.
2. An instance of baying; a howl.
   • 1877, Charles Cayley (translator), [[wikipedia:Homer]|Homer]]] Iliad, book XXI

     Soon as he hears bayings, and is not alarm'd nor affrighted...

   • 1885, "The Dogs of War", All the Year Round, Charles Dickens, Jr (editor), Volume XXXVI

     And the thrill which their ill-omened bayings send through people at large is a measure of the state of tension in which the general mind is held.

   • 1907, Frank Justus Miller (translator), Seneca, Hercules Furens Act III

     Who, tossing back and forth his triple heads,/ With mighty bayings watches o'er the realm.

Anagrams

• abying, bignay