present participle of cook

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

(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.

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

(UK, dialect, obsolete) To throw.

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

(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.

simple past tense and past participle of cook

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.