A Topical Dictionary: Search for Cooking

Dictionary Results For "Cooking" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ʊkɪŋ|-ʊkɪŋ

Verb

cooking

Noun

The process of preparing food by using heat
The style or genre of food preparation; cookery

Translations

Czech: vaření
Ewe: nuɖaɖa
Hebrew: בישול (bishul) (1)

Category:English present participles

fa:cooking fr:cooking it:cooking hu:cooking fi:cooking ta:cooking te:cooking vi:cooking zh:cooking

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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]

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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]

WordNet 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]

Moby Dictionary
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