Cooking
['kʊkɪŋ]
Definition
(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'.
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Definition
(p. pr & vb. n.) of Cook
Edited by Denny
Unserious Contents or Definition
To cook a meal, denotes some pleasant duty will devolve on you. Many friends will visit you in the near future. If there is discord or a lack of cheerfulness you may expect harassing and disappointing events to happen.
Checker: Melva
Examples
- And hotter, too, the soldier who was cooking said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It is next passed to the cooking department and placed in huge steam-jacketed kettles, which revolve continually and thus keep the chicle from scorching. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- To charge that the various activities of gardening, weaving, construction in wood, manipulation of metals, cooking, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- How Did the Cooking of Food Originate? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If it is equipped with a three-heat switch, it can be adjusted to 600 watts at full, 300 at medium and 150 at low, which means a great saving in current for most small cooking operations. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In this moon the first of the big schools of sardines come, the soldier who was cooking said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Suppose you learn plain cooking. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Somebody has been cooking up a story out of spite, and telling it to the old man, to try to set him against Fred. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Dowsing, one of the pioneers of electric cooking, exhibited electric cookers and heaters at the Crystal Palace Electrical Exposition in London, was much interest manifested. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The burning logs gave warmth to the cabin and served as a primitive cooking agent; and the smoke which usually accompanies burning bodies was carried away by means of the chimney. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The cooking is done in great vats and in enormous electric ovens. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It did not, the soldier who was cooking said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- My mistress mentioned to me that Lady Glyde (that was her name) was in poor health, and that I must be particular in my cooking accordingly. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Salt can be put to a great many uses in addition to the usual requirements for table and cooking. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I never go into the kitchen but there is a saucepan on the fire, cooking him some dainty. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Editor: Nell