cooking

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/ˈkʊk.ɪŋ/

noun 5adj 3

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

good, superb, wonderful

My grandmother's superb cooking always brought the whole family together on Sundays.

home

My grandmother's home cooking always made family dinners feel warm and special.

traditional

My grandmother taught me how to make her traditional cooking, passing down recipes from her childhood.

regional

Chinese, Italian, etc.

My grandmother taught me traditional Italian cooking when I was young.

vegetarian | slow

VERB + COOKING

My mother does all the cooking for our family on weekends.

PREP

during ~

The kitchen got very hot during cooking, so I opened all the windows.

in ~

Garlic is an essential ingredient in cooking most Asian dishes.

Definitions

noun

The process of preparing food by using heat.

The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]

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

An instance of preparing food by using heat.

In the tiny kitchen a dozen men and a boy tried to hush their breathing, and sweltered. For it was very hot, and the pent-up odor of past cookings was stifling to men used to the open

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

The result of preparing food by using heat.

My cooking isn't very good. I don't have any idea how to prepare a good meal.

I missed my mum's cooking while I was at university.

The result of preparing food by using heat.

What you've produced is a perfect example of authentic Chinese cooking.

One of the most common styles of Japanese cooking is called nimono.

The cheapest available beer for sale in a public house.

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

adj

Designed or suitable for culinary purposes.

I filled the cooking pot with water.

This tree bears cooking apples.

In progress, happening.

The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking.

Cheap; better suited for use in recipes than drinking.

Bone a shoulder of mutton and lay in the following pickle for 24 hours, viz.:…half pint of cooking claret…and long peppers.

JOHN JASPER: Mama says for you to come on upstairs and bring her a pint of cooking sherry. BODIDDLY: You know your Mama ain’t gonna do no cooking this time of the night!

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the act of preparing something (as food) by the application

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

what's cooking

A greeting, similar to how are you?; what's happening?; what's up?; what's new?

Hi there babe, what's cooking?

cooking with gas

Functioning particularly effectively; achieving something substantial.

She said, 'What are you doing? Tell me, I want to know.' The blind man said, 'We're drawing a cathedral. Me and him are working on it. Press hard,' he said to me. 'That's right. Th

now you're cooking

Used to praise someone for adopting a more effective or suitable method or approach, or to signal that progress is being made.

Alice: "Why are you still using that old software? You should try out the new version."

Example Bank

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

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Of nutritional benefit in cooking is a short cooking time in a minimal amount of water or steaming the vegetables. Yet, there are times when just the opposite, that is lengthy cooking, with plentiful

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I filled the cooking pot with water.

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This tree bears cooking apples.

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The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, cooking is marked as informal, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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