cooking
noun
[ ˈkʊkɪŋ ]
• the practice or skill of preparing food by combining, mixing, and heating ingredients.
• "he developed an interest in cooking"
cook
verb
• prepare (food, a dish, or a meal) by mixing, combining, and heating the ingredients.
• "shall I cook dinner tonight?"
• alter dishonestly; falsify.
• "a narcotics team who cooked the evidence"
Similar:
falsify,
alter,
doctor,
tamper with,
interfere with,
massage,
manipulate,
rig,
misrepresent,
forge,
fiddle,
• be happening or planned.
• "what's cooking on the alternative fuels front?"
• perform or proceed vigorously or very well.
• "the band used to get up on the bandstand and really cook"
Origin:
Old English cōc (noun), from popular Latin cocus, from Latin coquus .
