Definition: cooking

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

cooking
     n : the act of preparing something (as food) by the application
         of heat [syn: cookery]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Cook \Cook\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cooked; 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.