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Cooking definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COOKING, ppr. Preparing victuals for the table.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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: cooking, cookery, preparation]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: circa 1813 suitable for or used in cooking <cooking apples>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the art or process by which food is cooked. 2 (attrib.) suitable for or used in cooking (cooking apple; cooking utensils).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cook 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Cooking is food which has been cooked. The menu is based on classic French cooking. N-UNCOUNT: usu supp N 2. Cooking ingredients or equipment are used in cookery. Finely slice the cooking apples. ...cooking pots. ADJ: ADJ n 3. see also cook

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kook'-ing.

See FOOD.

Moby Thesaurus

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