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CookingSource: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 Cook \Cook\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cooked (k[oo^]kt); 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. [1913 Webster] 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.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cooking \cooking\ n.
1. the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so
prepared; cookery.
Syn: cookery, cuisine, culinary art.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. the act of preparing something (as food) by the
application of heat.
[WordNet 1.5]
Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
cooking
n : 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" [syn: cookery, preparation]
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 23 Moby Thesaurus words for "cooking": a la mode, calefaction, dielectric heating, electric heating, electronic heating, furnace heating, gas heating, heat exchange, heating, hot-air heating, increase of temperature, induction heating, insolation, oil heating, panel heating, radiant heating, recalescence, steam heating, stroganoff, superheating, tepefaction, torrefaction, warming Matching Word(s) Cooing Crooking Booking Hooking Looking Rooking Choking Cocking Corking Cooling Cooping cooing booking hooking looking choking corking cooling LOOKING
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