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cooking \cooking\ n.
1. the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so
prepared; cookery.

Syn: cookery, cuisine, culinary art.
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2. the act of preparing something (as food) by the
application of heat.
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Cook \Cook\, v. t. [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.
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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.]
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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.
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