cooling

UK /ˈkuːlɪŋ/ US /ˈkulɪŋ/

adj 2noun 2

Definitions

adj

That cools.

Of food or medicine, according to traditional Chinese medicine: serving to cool or calm the body.

Steamed fish and chicken and vegetable soup and even mushrooms are considered cooling foods, edible materializations of the yang, the pure primal air. The yin, or earth element, inheres in fried dishes and especially in shark's fin soup. Am I right, Mr Lee?

noun

A decrease in temperature.

Refrigeration.

Collocations

ADJ.

active, considered, edible, global, good, infrared, outside, proper

The edible cooling gel helped soothe the burn on his sunburned shoulder.

VERB + COOLING

access, cake, heating, lack, require, rise, scream, started

The old refrigerator required cooling throughout the hot summer months.

COOLING + NOUN

bills, counter, fan, foods, heels, materializations, night, security

The cooling fan in my laptop started making a strange noise last week.

PREP.

down, from, from, in, off, on, on, through

The engine was cooling down after we turned it off.

ADV.

instead, internally, simply

The engine was cooled internally rather than using a separate radiator system.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the process of becoming cooler

chilling

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

house cooling party

A party to celebrate when a person decides to leave a house or flat, and sometimes to help prepare the space for the incoming residents.

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Wiktionary

Autumn is just around the corner. It's about time the weather started cooling off.

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Iron is tempered by heating and sudden cooling.

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His affection is cooling.

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That's right, that strange sound was the final death scream of the cooling fan.

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Open windows are good for cooling.

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