cooking

Pronunciation

• (UK) (US) IPA ^(key): /ˈkʊ.kɪŋ/

Noun

Singular cooking

Plural none

1. (uncountable) Cooking is how you make food by using heat.

   The school teaches the secrets of French cooking.

   He also grew up with his family's love of good cooking.

Verb

Plain form cook

Third-person singular cooks

Past tense cooked

Past participle cooked

Present participle cooking

1. The present participle of cook.

   An old woman was cooking food over an open fire.

   Cooking fish is easy if you know how to do it.

Related words

• cook
• cooker
• uncooked
• cookery