(uncountable) The process of preparing food by using heat. / (countable, rare) An instance of preparing food by using heat. / (uncountable) One's ability to prepare food; cookery.

Designed for culinary purposes / (informal) In progress, happening. / (of an alcoholic drink) Cheap; better suited for use in recipes than drinking.

present participle of cook

plural of cooking

(cooking) A person who prepares food. / (cooking) The head cook of a manor house / (cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food

(transitive or intransitive) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients. / (intransitive) To be cooked. / (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.

(obsolete, rare, intransitive) To make the noise of the cuckoo.

(UK, dialect, obsolete) To throw.

Of food, that has been prepared by cooking. / (computing, slang, of an MP3 audio file) Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.

simple past tense and past participle of cook