caking
/ˈkeɪkɪŋ/
caking is the present participle and gerund of cake.
Meaning of cake
Verb
cake (third-person singular simple present cakes, present participle caking, simple past and past participle caked)
- Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
- His shoes are caked with mud.
- To form into a cake, or mass.
- Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.
- Once we fell asleep, and, I think, must have slept for some hours, for, when we woke, our limbs were quite stiff, and the blood from our blows and scratches had caked, and was hard and dry upon our skin.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
Noun
caking (plural cakings)
- A layer or deposit of caked material.
- In order to avoid cakings the walls of the tubes are made out of rubber breadths which are stretched over corner steel in the breaks. These rubber breadths oscillate slightly.2008, Bernd Kleinjohann, Lisa Kleinjohann, Wayne Wolf, Distributed embedded systems, page 1000
Forms of caking
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Questions about caking
- What does caking mean?
- Caking means a layer or deposit of caked material.
- What is caking the present participle and gerund of?
- Caking is the present participle and gerund of cake.
- What part of speech is caking?
- Caking is a noun.
- How do you pronounce caking?
- Caking is pronounced /ˈkeɪkɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of caking?
- The plural of caking is cakings.
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