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cooking
CIDE DICTIONARY
cooking, n.
- the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared; cookery. [WordNet 1.5]
- the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cooking, n.
1 the art or process by which food is cooked.
2 (attrib.) suitable for or used in cooking (cooking apple; cooking utensils).
1 the art or process by which food is cooked.
2 (attrib.) suitable for or used in cooking (cooking apple; cooking utensils).
THESAURUS
cooking
a la mode, calefaction, dielectric heating, electric heating, electronic heating, furnace heating, gas heating, heat exchange, heating, hot-air heating, increase of temperature, induction heating, insolation, oil heating, panel heating, radiant heating, recalescence, steam heating, stroganoff, superheating, tepefaction, torrefaction, warmingROGET THESAURUS
cooking
Preparation
N preparation, providing, provision, providence, anticipation, precaution, preconcertation, predisposition, forecast, rehearsal, note of preparation, arrangement, clearance, adjustment, tuning, equipment, outfit, accouterment, armament, array, ripening, maturation, evolution, elaboration, concoction, digestion, gestation, batching, incubation, sitting, groundwork, first stone, cradle, stepping-stone, foundation, scaffold, scaffolding, echafaudage, training, inurement, novitiate, cooking, cookery, brewing, culinary art, tilling, plowing sowing, semination, cultivation, preparedness, readiness, ripeness, mellowness, maturity, un impromptu fait a loisir, preparer, trainer, pioneer, trailblazer, avant-courrier, avant-coureur, voortrekker, sappers and miners, pavior, navvy, packer, stevedore, warming pan, preparing, in preparation, in course of preparation, in agitation, in embryo, in hand, in train, afoot, afloat, on foot, on the stocks, on the anvil, under consideration, brewing, batching, forthcoming, brooding, in store for, in reserve, precautionary, provident, preparative, preparatory, provisional, inchoate, under revision, preliminary, prepared, in readiness, ready, ready to one's band, ready made, ready cut and dried: made to one's hand, handy, on the table, in gear, in working order, in working gear, snug, in practice, ripe, mature, mellow, pukka, practiced, labored, elaborate, highly-wrought, smelling of the lamp, worked up, in full feather, in best bib and tucker, in harness, at harness, in the saddle, in arms, in battle array, in war paint, up in arms, armed at all points, armed to the teeth, armed cap a pie, sword in hand, booted and spurred, in utrumque paratus, semper paratus, on the alert, at one's post, in preparation, in anticipation of, against, for, abroach, a bove majori discit arare minor, looking before and after, si vis pacem para bellum.Also see definition of "cooking" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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