Definitions for cooking

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cooking cook·ing

Spelling: [koo k-ing]

IPA: /ˈkʊk ɪŋ/

Cooking is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in cooking (cgiknoo).

Definitions for cooking

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that cooks.
2. the art or practice of preparing food; cookery.
3. a person who cooks:

Idioms

1. cook one's goose. goose (def 11).
2. cook the books, Slang. to manipulate the financial records of a company, organization, etc., so as to conceal profits, avoid taxes, or present a false financial report to stockholders.

adjective

1. used in preparing foods:
2. fit to eat when cooked (distinguished from eating):

Verb phrases

1. cook off, (of a shell or cartridge) to explode or fire without being triggered as a result of overheating in the chamber of the weapon.
2. cook up, Informal. to concoct or contrive, often dishonestly: to falsify:

verb (used with object)

1. to prepare (food) by the use of heat, as by boiling, baking, or roasting.
2. to subject (anything) to the application of heat.
3. Slang. to ruin; spoil.
4. Informal. to falsify, as accounts:

verb (used without object)

1. to prepare food by the use of heat.
2. (of food) to undergo cooking.
3. Slang. to be full of activity and excitement: to perform, work, or do in just the right way and with energy and enthusiasm: to be in preparation; develop: to take place; occur; happen:
4. to hide, especially outdoors, as by crouching down behind a hedge.

Origin of cooking

First recorded in 1635-45; cook¹ + -ing¹, -ing²

Examples for cooking

During the cooking some of the liquid in the jars evaporates.

What may be said of the selection of a pan for cooking candy?

There, she and other mothers can take ministry-sponsored courses, including on cooking and avoiding marital conflict.

Drain immediately and immerse the beans in ice water to stop the cooking.

How should salt be used in the cooking of: (a) tender vegetables?

Their preparation for cooking is similar to that of oysters.

Probably the most important of these principles is the cooking of food.

Hosts are vetted carefully, both for their cooking and entertaining skills.

cooking and taking care of the rooms – this is an industry that is reserved for women.

cooking up scientific explanations of the plagues has been a pastime for years.