cookingnoun
Translations
Cooking is one of my favorite hobbies.
Готовка - одно из моих любимых хобби.
She is studying cooking at the culinary school.
Она изучает кулинарию в кулинарной школе.
Additional translations
кулинарное искусство
приготовление пищи
Definitions
The practice or skill of preparing food by combining, mixing, and heating ingredients.
She has a passion for cooking and often experiments with new recipes.
Food that has been cooked; prepared dishes.
Her grandmother's cooking always filled the house with wonderful aromas.
A particular style or method of preparing food.
Mediterranean cooking emphasises fresh vegetables and olive oil.
Synonyms
meal preparation
culinary arts
food preparation
cookingadjective
UK
/ˈkʊkɪŋ/
US
/ˈkʊkɪŋ/
Used attributively to describe food or ingredients intended for or suitable for cooking (e.g., "cooking apples").
Definitions
Suitable for or used in cooking.
These are cooking apples rather than eating apples.
cookverb

cooking

Gerund

cooked
Past Simple
cooked
Past Participle
cooking
Gerund
UK
/kʊk/
US
/kʊk/
Translations
They plan to cook a cake for the party.
Они планируют печь торт для вечеринки.
I like to cook dinner for my family.
Мне нравится готовить ужин для моей семьи.
He will cook the steak on the grill.
Он будет жарить стейк на гриле.
She decided to cook the pasta for lunch.
Она решила варить пасту на обед.
Definitions
To prepare food by heating it.
She decided to cook a delicious meal for her family.
To falsify or manipulate data or records.
The accountant was caught trying to cook the books.
To be in the process of being prepared by heating.
The stew is cooking on the stove.
Informal, intransitive: to function or proceed very well; to be lively, exciting, or efficient.
The band was really cooking by the second set.
cooknoun
Definitions
A person who prepares and cooks food, especially as a job or in a specified way.
The cook at the restaurant is known for his delicious pasta dishes.
cookproper noun
Definitions
An English-language surname, most famously borne by the British navigator and cartographer Captain James Cook (1728–1779).
Cook completed three voyages to the Pacific Ocean.