'Cooking' definitions:

Definition of 'cooking'

(from WordNet)
noun
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" [syn: cooking, cookery, preparation]

Definition of 'Cooking'

From: GCIDE
  • Cook \Cook\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cooked (k[oo^]kt); p. pr & vb. n. Cooking.]
  • 1. To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
  • They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different. --Addison. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'cooking'

From: GCIDE
  • cooking \cooking\ n.
  • 1. the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared; cookery.
  • Syn: cookery, cuisine, culinary art. [WordNet 1.5]
  • 2. the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat. [WordNet 1.5]

Synonyms of 'cooking'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Cooking'