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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cook \Cook\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Cooked} (k[oo^]kt); p. pr & vb. n. {Cooking}.]
1. To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.
2. To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account. [Colloq.]
They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different. --Addison.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
cooking \cooking\ n.
1. the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared; cookery.
Syn: cookery, cuisine, culinary art. [WordNet 1.5]
2. the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cooking
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" [syn: {cookery}, {preparation}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
23 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, warming
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