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cooking is a noun meaning "the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat". 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.