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cooking   (TTS Sound)

The noun cooking has 1 sense

• cooking, cookery, preparation -- (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")

The verb cook has 5 senses

• cook -- (prepare a hot meal; "My husband doesn't cook")


• cook, fix, ready, make, prepare -- (prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please")


• cook -- (transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes")


• fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent -- (tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data")


• cook -- (transform by heating; "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle")