Dictionary
cooking
Meaning
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- The process of preparing food by using heat.
- An instance of preparing food by using heat.
- The result of preparing food by using heat.
- The result of preparing food by using heat.
- The cheapest available beer for sale in a public house; cooking bitter or cooking lager.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkʊk.ɪŋ/
Etymology
From cook + -ing. The noun and adjective follow from the verb. The use of the word cooking to describe cheap bitter was popularized by the title character of the BBC sitcom Oh No, It’s Selwyn Froggitt (1974-1978).
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cook
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- A person who prepares food.
- The head cook of a manor house.
- The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
- (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
- (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
- A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
- An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.
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As long as there is water 🚰 in a cooking pot , the temperature 🌡️ cannot rise above a hundred degrees Celsius .
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As long as there is water in a cooking pot, the temperature cannot rise above a hundred degrees Celsius.