COOKING

cooking, cookery, preparation

(noun) the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; “cooking can be a great art”; “people are needed who have experience in cookery”; “he left the preparation of meals to his wife”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

cooking (countable and uncountable, plural cookings)

(uncountable) The process of preparing food by using heat.

(countable, rare) An instance of preparing food by using heat.

The result of preparing food by using heat.

(uncountable) One's ability to prepare food; cookery.

(uncountable) The style or genre of food preparation.

Synonyms

• (skill or style of food preparation): See culinary art

Adjective

cooking (not comparable)

(informal) In progress, happening.

Verb

cooking

present participle of cook

Source: Wiktionary

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COOK

Cook, v. i. Etym: [Of imitative origin.]

Definition: To make the noise of the cuckoo. [Obs. or R.] Constant cuckoos cook on every side. The Silkworms (1599).

Cook, v. t. Etym: [Etymol. unknown.]

Definition: To throw. [Prov.Eng.] "Cook me that ball." Grose.

Cook, n. Etym: [AS. coc, fr. l. cocus, coquus, coquus, fr. coquere to cook; akin to Gr. pac, and to E. apricot, biscuit, concoct, dyspepsia, precocious. Cf. Pumpkin.]

1. One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.

2. (Zoöl.)

Definition: A fish, the European striped wrasse.

Cook, v. t. [imp. & p.p. Cooked; p.pr & vb.n. Cooking.]

1. To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.

2. To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble;

– often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account. [Colloq.] They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different. Addison.

Cook, v. i.

Definition: To prepare food for the table.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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