Cooking

Quick meaning: Cooking is a noun meaning (uncountable) The process of preparing food by using heat.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (countable, rare) An instance of preparing food by using heat.
2. The result of preparing food by using heat.
3. (uncountable) The cheapest available beer for sale in a public house.
4. Designed or suitable for culinary purposes.
5. (informal) In progress, happening.
6. (of an alcoholic drink) Cheap; better suited for use in recipes than drinking.
7. present participle and gerund of cook

Example Sentences

I filled the cooking pot with water.

‘Pint of bitter, please,” said Reggie. ‘Pint of cooking,” said the landlord.

The cooking took a long time. Fionn built a spit from the ash that the salmon had knocked down.

This culinary process is but the first in a series of cookings, of which the intracorporeal cookings constitute the rest.

Word Forms

• cookings

Synonyms for cooking

Depending on context, synonyms include cuisine, cookery.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cookery, cuisine, frying, fry, culinary, oven.

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