Cooking vs. Cocking — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cooking and Cocking
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Cooking
Cooking, cookery, or culinary arts is the art, science, and craft of using heat to prepare food for consumption. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely, from grilling food over an open fire to using electric stoves, to baking in various types of ovens, reflecting local conditions.
Cocking
An adult male chicken; a rooster.
Cooking
To prepare (food) for eating by applying heat.
Cocking
An adult male of various other birds.
Cooking
To prepare or treat by heating
Slowly cooked the medicinal mixture.
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Cocking
A weathervane shaped like a rooster; a weathercock.
Cooking
(Slang) To alter or falsify so as to make a more favorable impression; doctor
Disreputable accountants who were paid to cook the firm's books.
Cocking
A faucet or valve by which the flow of a liquid or gas can be regulated.
Cooking
To prepare food for eating by applying heat.
Cocking
The hammer of a firearm.
Cooking
To undergo application of heat especially for the purpose of later ingestion.
Cocking
The position of the hammer of a firearm when ready for firing.
Cooking
(Slang) To happen, develop, or take place
What's cooking in town?.
Cocking
A tilting or jaunty turn upward
The cock of a hat.
Cooking
(Slang) To proceed or perform very well
The band really got cooking after midnight.
Cocking
The penis.
Cooking
A person who prepares food for eating.
Cocking
A man or boy regarded as mean or contemptible.
Cooking
(uncountable) The process of preparing food by using heat.
Cocking
(Archaic) The characteristic cry of a rooster early in the morning.
Cooking
An instance of preparing food by using heat.
Cocking
A cone-shaped pile of straw or hay.
Cooking
The result of preparing food by using heat.
Cocking
To set the hammer of (a firearm) in a position ready for firing.
Cooking
(uncountable) One's ability to prepare food; cookery.
My cooking isn't very good. I don't have any idea how to prepare a good meal.
I missed my mum's cooking while I was at university.
Cocking
To set (a device, such as a camera shutter) in a position ready for use.
Cooking
(uncountable) The style or genre of food preparation.
What you've produced is a perfect example of authentic Chinese cooking.
Cocking
To tilt or turn up or to one side, usually in a jaunty or alert manner
Cocked an eyebrow in response to a silly question.
Cooking
(uncountable) The cheapest available beer for sale in a public house; cooking bitter or cooking lager.
Cocking
To raise in preparation to throw or hit
Cocked the bat before swinging at the pitch.
Cooking
Designed for culinary purposes
I filled the cooking pot with water
I put a lid on the cooking pan
Cocking
To arrange (straw or hay) into piles shaped like cones.
Cooking
(informal) In progress, happening.
The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking.
Cocking
Present participle of cock
Cooking
Present participle of cook
Cocking
(archaic) The hunting of gamecocks.
Cooking
The practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared; cookery.
Cocking
(obsolete) Cockfighting.
Cooking
The act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.
Cocking
(vulgar) offensive or worthless
Cooking
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
Cocking
Cockfighting.
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