[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cook \cook\, v. t. imp.  p. p. cooked koo^kt; 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.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            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.
      1913 webster
see also:
cooked cooking 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cooking \cooking\ n.
   1. the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so
      prepared; cookery.

   syn: cookery, cuisine, culinary art.
        wordnet 1.5

   2. the act of preparing something as food by the
      application of heat.
      wordnet 1.5

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

cooking
     n : 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" syn: cookery, preparation
see also:
cookery preparation 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

23 moby thesaurus words for "cooking":
   a la mode, calefaction, dielectric heating, electric heating,
   electronic heating, furnace heating, gas heating, heat exchange,
   heating, hot-air heating, increase of temperature,
   induction heating, insolation, oil heating, panel heating,
   radiant heating, recalescence, steam heating, stroganoff,
   superheating, tepefaction, torrefaction, warming

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