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Cooking vs Cooling - What's the difference?

cooking | cooling |

As adjectives the difference between cooking and cooling

is that cooking is (informal) in progress, happening while cooling is that cools.

As nouns the difference between cooking and cooling

is that cooking is the process of preparing food by using heat while cooling is a decrease in temperature.

As verbs the difference between cooking and cooling

is that cooking is while cooling is .

cooking

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (informal) In progress, happening.
  • The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking .

    Noun

  • The process of preparing food by using heat.
  • (by extension) The process of preparing food.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1913, author=
  • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=6 citation , passage=The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks?; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]}}
  • (by extension) The result of that process, a meal.
  • * I missed my mum's cooking while I was at university.
  • The style or genre of food preparation; cookery.
  • Synonyms

    (style or genre of food preparation) cuisine

    Verb

    (head)
  • cooling

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • a decrease in temperature
  • refrigeration
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • that cools
  • Derived terms

    * cooling board * cooling curve * cooling-off period * cooling pond * cooling rack * cooling tower