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Noun
/ˈko͝okiNG/,
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cookings, plural;
  1. The process of preparing food by heating it
    • - frozen food must be fully defrosted before cooking
  2. The practice or skill of preparing food
    • - he developed an interest in cooking
  3. Food that has been prepared in a particular way
    • - authentic Italian cooking
  4. Suitable for or used in cooking
    • - cooking oil

  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"
  2. (cook) someone who cooks food
  3. (cook) prepare a hot meal; "My husband doesn't cook"
  4. (cook) English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
  5. (cook) prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
  6. (cook) transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"
  7. Cooking is the process of preparing food by applying heat. Cooks select and combine ingredients using a wide range of tools and methods. In the process, the flavor, texture, appearance, and chemical properties of the ingredients can change. ...
  8. RuneScape is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released in January 2001 by Andrew and Paul Gower, and developed by Jagex Ltd. It is a graphical browser game implemented on the client-side in Java, and incorporates 3D rendering. ...
  9. In scientific culture, cooking is a term for falsifying data or selectively deleting data in an attempt to prove a hypothesis.
  10. (AN Cook) Alastair Nathan Cook (born 25 December 1984) is an English international cricket player. He is a left-handed opening batsman who currently plays county cricket for Essex and Test cricket for England. Cook played for Essex's Academy and quickly made his debut for the first XI in 2003. ...
  11. (Cook (Brentford cricketer)) Cook (dates unknown) was an English professional cricketer from Brentford who played in major matches for Middlesex during the 1730s. He was "reckoned one of the best bowlers in England".Buckley, p.10.
  12. (Cook (crater)) Cook is a lunar crater that lies in the western part of the Mare Fecunditatis, just to the southeast of the prominent crater Colombo. To the southwest is Monge.
  13. The process of preparing food by using heat; The style or genre of food preparation; cookery; In progress, happening
  14. (cook) A person who prepares food for a living; To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients; To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients; To become ready for eating by the application of heat ...
  15. (Cook) An English occupational surname for a cook, or a seller of cooked food
  16. (cooked) Of food, that has been prepared by cooking; Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable; (of accounting records, intelligence) partially or wholly fabricated, falsified
  17. (Cook) Prepare heroin for injection by mixing it with water and heating it.
  18. (COOK) Common abbreviation for the Cookbook pages in the Cookbook namespace. See also Wikibooks:Shortcuts.
  19. (COOK) Good surf. When the surf cooks, it is going off its face, firing, pumping, cranking, going off its pip, sick, rad, ballistic. Consistent, big, clean, beautifully shaped waves. Someone who cooks is not a chef. He or she is a good surfer.
  20. (COOK) Working at making something more palatable or easier to accept / Your ability to nourish others (or self) emotionally, physically, spiritually or intellectually / Family responsibilities; comfort / Inventing something; cooking up a plan / (see FOOD, OVEN, KITCHEN)
  21. (Cook) A fancy household preferred a male French chef. During the Regency people favoured all things French, a stark irony considering they were at war with that country. ...
  22. (Cook) A person employed to perform culinary service. In early times among the Hebrews cooking was performed by the mistress of the household (Gen 18:2; Jdg 6:19), and the process was very expeditiously performed (Gen 27:3, Gen 27:4, Gen 27:9, Gen 27:10). ...
  23. (Cook) A suffix meaning a pool or bay, often applied to a lake or pond. (I)
  24. (Cook) An alternative solution, not intended by the composer, that renders a problem unsound.
  25. (Cook) An unintended solution of a chess problem.