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Cooking   /kˈʊkɪŋ/   Listen
Cooking

noun
1.
The act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.  Synonyms: cookery, preparation.  "People are needed who have experience in cookery" , "He left the preparation of meals to his wife"



Cook

verb
(past & past part. cooked; pres. part. cooking)
1.
Prepare a hot meal.
2.
Prepare for eating by applying heat.  Synonyms: fix, make, prepare, ready.  "Can you make me an omelette?" , "Fix breakfast for the guests, please"
3.
Transform and make suitable for consumption by heating.
4.
Tamper, with the purpose of deception.  Synonyms: fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle.  "Cook the books" , "Falsify the data"
5.
Transform by heating.



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"Cooking" Quotes from Famous Books



... that I had not in any way resented either his actions or his language during the days we had been together, and did not watch me as closely as he ought to have done. He was sitting with the cocked rifle across his knees, the muzzle to the left. My rifle was leaning against a tree near the cooking things to his right. Managing to get near it, I whipped it up and threw the bead on him, calling, "Hands up!" He of course put up his hands, and then said, "Oh, come, I was only joking"; to which I answered, "Well, I am not. Now straighten your legs and let your rifle go to ...
— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt

... was wholly unable to tear herself away from their affectionate caresses; but the moment she saw the good old mother busy in getting breakfast, she went to the hearth, applied herself to cooking the food and putting it on the table, and would not suffer her to take the ...
— Undine - I • Friedrich de la Motte Fouque

... between decks, the combination of ease and elegance in the furniture, the copper-plate drawings, the swinging table, the pantry with every drawer and cupboard exactly where they ought to be, and nowhere else, the forecastle, and, wonder upon wonder! the cooking apparatus with its moveable jack, and its particular copper for hot water,—all these things, and a thousand others too minute to tell, acted so impressively on their minds, that I could hear them extolling, in barbarous grammar, to the cook the ...
— A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden - 2nd edition • W. A. Ross

... that for the moment he didn't care whether he had anything to eat or not, yet he managed to do fair justice to Susie's cooking. ...
— Sweetapple Cove • George van Schaick

... faced the great problem of sleeping. The tent, illumined by a candle, glowed warmly in the midst of the white plain; and when he, as a matter of course, entered it, both Perrault and Francois bombarded him with curses and cooking utensils, till he recovered from his consternation and fled ignominiously into the outer cold. A chill wind was blowing that nipped him sharply and bit with especial venom into his wounded shoulder. He lay down on the snow and ...
— The Call of the Wild • Jack London


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