cooking

Plural: cookings

Noun

• The act of preparing food by heating; culinary activity.
• the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat
  • "cooking can be a great art"
• The process of preparing food by using heat.
• An instance of preparing food by using heat.
• The result of preparing food by using heat.
• One's ability to prepare food; cookery.
• The result of preparing food by using heat.
• The style or genre of food preparation.
• The cheapest available beer for sale in a public house; cooking bitter or cooking lager.

Verb

• prepare a hot meal
• prepare for eating by applying heat
• transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
• tamper, with the purpose of deception
• transform by heating
• present participle and gerund of cook

Adj

• Designed or suitable for culinary purposes.
• In progress, happening.
• Cheap; better suited for use in recipes than drinking.

Examples

• Her cooking of the game plan was brilliant, setting up multiple bingos.
• I filled the cooking pot with water.
• The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking.
• This tree bears cooking apples.

Synonyms

cook, cookery, fake, falsify, fix, fudge, make, manipulate, misrepresent, preparation, prepare, ready, wangle, culinary art

Anagrams of cooking