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say it: KUUK-ing
cooking is a noun meaning "the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat". It is pronounced /ˈkʊkɪŋ/ — KUUK-ing. It carries one recorded sense.
the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat
“cooking can be a great art”
“people are needed who have experience in cookery”
“he left the preparation of meals to his wife”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cooking come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.