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Feces vs Cooking - What's the difference?

feces | cooking |

As nouns the difference between feces and cooking

is that feces is faeces while cooking is the process of preparing food by using heat.

As an adjective cooking is

(informal) in progress, happening.

As a verb cooking is

.

feces

English

(wikipedia feces)

Alternative forms

* faeces (British), (archaic)

Noun

(en-plural noun) (North American spelling)
  • Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from the bowels; excrement.
  • Usage notes

    * This word can be used with plural verbs ("feces have a strong smell") or singular ones ("feces has a strong smell"). Use with plural verbs is more common, especially in Britain, and is the only use recognized by some dictionaries,

    Synonyms

    * (discharged animal waste) excrement, faecal matter, guano (of birds or bats only), manure (not used of human faeces) * night soil (euphemistic) * doo, poo, poop, boo-boo, and doody (euphemistic or hypocoristic) * crap, shit, turd, log (vulgar) * See also

    References

    English pluralia tantum ----

    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)