What's the difference between baking and balmy?

Baking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bake
  • (n.) The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.
  • (n.) The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
  • (2) In books, Doctor Who and The Great British Bake Off were named as "standout" sales performers.
  • (3) The Great British Bake Off presenter is hardly a controversial figure.
  • (4) Fold the edges of the baking parchment down over the rim of the basin.
  • (5) Place on a large baking tray and fold over the edges to give a 1cm pastry border.
  • (6) On the programme, the bakes begin to become divorced from their function as food; they become symbols, like the cardboard cakes that were sometimes used at British weddings during the war when shortages ruled out the real thing.
  • (7) When it comes to Donald Trump, the cake is baked, and almost everything that happens – negative or positive – only serves to reinforce existing perceptions of the candidates.
  • (8) The shadow justice secretary, Sadiq Khan, said the three letters were evidence that those who really know and understand the probation services were warning the government that their plans were not only half-baked but were being rushed through at breakneck speed.
  • (9) It is up against Broadchurch, Doctor Who: Day of the Doctor, Educating Yorkshire, Gogglebox and The Great British Bake Off in this category.
  • (10) Today The Great British Bake Off (BBC1), inspired – for no special reason – by Gogglebox, which seems to have two new sofa critics.
  • (11) BBC2 will remain "broad and popular", tasked with finding "the next British Bake Off as well as the next series like the Story of the Jews".
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest This year’s Great British Bake Off semi-finalists: (clockwise from top left) Nadiya Hussain, Tamal Ray, Flora Shedden and Ian Cumming.
  • (13) Self-described "Business Barbie" Luisa Zissman already runs two successful baking businesses.
  • (14) A Staphylococcus strain was inoculated on the top and cut surfaces of freshly baked Southern custard pies which were then packaged in a pasteboard carton and held at 30 C. Daily plate counts of surface sections 0.3 inch (0.76 cm) in thickness were made.
  • (15) Technically, it can replace fat in a wide variety of foods and can be used to make cooked, baked, and fried foods lower in fat and calories.
  • (16) "I am an old lady, and have many grandchildren," she says, pointing to the gaunt, grubby faces baking around her in the tent.
  • (17) But one has a right to demand what purpose it fulfils," wrote the Times's critic, who felt that Bond's "blockishly naturalistic piece, full of dead domestic longueurs and slavishly literal bawdry", would "supply valuable ammunition to those who attack modern drama as half-baked, gratuitously violent and squalid".
  • (18) Place on a tray lined with parchment and bake for 10–12 minutes, then drizzle with syrup.
  • (19) Ruby Tandoh faced online abuse during her appearances on The Great British Bake Off – and now the 21-year-old philosophy student has been set up for a fresh mauling by the Daily Mail .
  • (20) Davis had earlier declined the privilege of specifying his final supper, so instead was given the institution's choice of grilled cheeseburgers, oven browned potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, cookies and a grape beverage.

Balmy


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the qualities of balm; odoriferous; aromatic; assuaging; soothing; refreshing; mild.
  • (a.) Producing balm.
  • (a.) Full of barm or froth; in a ferment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The balmy Caribbean is also being churned up with increasing frequency and ferocity.
  • (2) While UK sales in October and November were affected by the balmy autumn, Bason said it only affected winter coats and knitwear, which make up a third of Primark’s product range so overall sales continued to rise.
  • (3) So it’s understandable that the Australian prime minister couldn’t quite take in what the US president said to him as journalists filed into the American purpose-built venue for bilateral meetings and other summit business on a balmy Tuesday evening at Apec in Manila.
  • (4) It was a balmy California evening as Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine strolled along the Los Angeles beachfront.
  • (5) A balmy Saturday morning finds most of the gardens well tended and the plain, postwar semis in a good state of repair.
  • (6) Ronald Reagan’s Air Force One plane formed the backdrop as the candidates debated in front of a rapt audience, with hundreds of journalists in an adjacent media centre and “spin room” and a balmy sun setting over the valley.
  • (7) Spring is a great time to visit – Chengdu is basking in a balmy 20C, and everywhere trees are in blossom.
  • (8) So on a balmy day in Edinburgh in late May 1988, as I shuttled between the university library and anti-apartheid meetings, came the news that my mother, who had raised me on her own, had died.
  • (9) But while the south and east of Britain experienced balmy temperatures, places further north and east remained wet.
  • (10) After weeks of balmy weather that have left clothes retailers with huge stocks of unsold coats, boots and jumpers , John Lewis said shoppers were finally buying winter clothes.
  • (11) We’ve got a lot of young players in the squad and their lack of fear can be a good thing.” If Rashford’s right-foot volley in the third minute was the highlight of a balmy Wearside evening, his all-round game generally proved impressive.
  • (12) Cairo is a city built for sunny days and balmy nights; come winter the wind can lash with a ferocious bite.
  • (13) Before the long balmy era we have enjoyed over the past 10,000 years, climate was often much more tempestuous.
  • (14) New York was a balmy 54f (12.2c) early Monday but was expected to be 11f (-11.6c) by Tuesday morning.
  • (15) It is a balmy Saturday afternoon in the suburbs of Singapore.
  • (16) As I exit Prince's LA Xanadu and head out into the balmy California night, I ask myself how much he actually cares about being a superstar again.
  • (17) On a balmy August evening, the man goes out and picks some mushrooms.
  • (18) Analysts have been concerned that fashion chains will suffer, having been forced to offer discounts to clear stocks of coats and jumpers during a balmy autumn.
  • (19) But for at least the next few days while he visits the former heartland of regional revolution, the US president should be able to bask in an unusually balmy political climate of a US president in Latin America.
  • (20) It is a measure of Wales’s dominance that the scoreline flattered Russia on a balmy night in Toulouse.