cooling

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, cool +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːlɪŋ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkulɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -uːlɪŋ
• Hyphenation: cool‧ing

Adjective

cooling (comparative more cooling, superlative most cooling)

1. That cools.

   Synonym: frigorific

2. (Asian English). Of food or medicine, according to traditional Chinese medicine: serving to cool or calm the body.

   Antonym: heaty

   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 187:

     Steamed fish and chicken and vegetable soup and even mushrooms are considered cooling foods, edible materializations of the yang, the pure primal air. The yin, or earth element, inheres in fried dishes and especially in shark's fin soup. Am I right, Mr Lee?

Derived terms

• cooling board
• cooling center
• cooling curve
• cooling glasses
• cooling-off period
• cooling pond
• cooling rack
• cooling tower

Translations

that cools

• Belarusian: ахаладжа́льны (axaladžálʹny)
• Finnish: viilentävä, jäähdyttävä (fi)
• Hungarian: (making cool) hűtő (hu), lehűtő, hűsítő (hu), (getting cool) hűlő, lehűlő
• Macedonian: разладен m (razladen)
• Portuguese: refrigerante (pt) m
• Russian: охлажда́ющий (ru) (oxlaždájuščij)
• Slovak: chladiaci
• Spanish: refrigerante
• Ukrainian: охоло́джувальний (oxolódžuvalʹnyj)

Noun

cooling (countable and uncountable, plural coolings)

1. (countable) A decrease in temperature.
2. (uncountable) Refrigeration.

Derived terms

• adiabatic cooling
• aftercooling
• coolingly
• cooling plant
• cooling time
• cryocooling
• decooling
• district cooling
• dynamic cooling
• evaporative cooling
• expansion cooling
• free-cooling
• global cooling
• heroic cooling
• house cooling party
• laser cooling
• lubro-cooling
• overcooling
• Peltier cooling
• Sisyphus cooling
• subcooling
• telecooling

Translations

decrease in temperature

• Catalan: refredament m
• Finnish: jäähtyminen (fi), viilentyminen
• French: refroidissement (fr) m
• Hungarian: hűlés (hu), lehűlés (hu)
• Irish: fuarú m
• Italian: raffreddamento (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjøling m or f, avkjøling m or f

  Nynorsk: kjøling f, avkjøling f

• Polish: ochłodzenie (pl) n
• Russian: похолода́ние (ru) n (poxolodánije) (weather), охлажде́ние (ru) n (oxlaždénije)
• Slovak: ochladenie, chladnutie
• Spanish: enfriamiento (es) m

refrigeration

• Belarusian: ахало́джванне n (axalódžvannje) (process), ахаладжэ́нне n (axaladžénnje) (state)
• Bulgarian: охлаждане (bg) n (ohlaždane)
• Catalan: refredament m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冷卻 / 冷却 (zh) (lěngquè)

• Czech: chlazení n
• Finnish: jäähdyttäminen (fi), viilentäminen (fi) (process)
• French: refroidissement (fr) m
• German: Kühlung (de) f
• Hebrew: קירור m (qirur)
• Hungarian: hűtés (hu), lehűtés (hu)
• Italian: raffreddamento (it) m
• Japanese: 冷却 (ja) (れいきゃく, reikyaku)
• Korean: 냉각(冷却) (ko) (naenggak), 랭각(冷却) (ko) (raenggak) (North Korea)
• Macedonian: разладување n (razladuvanje), ладење n (ladenje)
• Polish: chłodzenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: arrefecimento (pt) m, refrigeração (pt) f
• Russian: охлажде́ние (ru) n (oxlaždénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хлађење n

  Roman: hlađenje n

• Slovak: chladenie n
• Slovene: hlajenje n
• Spanish: enfriamiento (es) m
• Ukrainian: охоло́дження n (oxolódžennja)

Verb

cooling

1. present participle and gerund of cool

Further reading

• “cooling”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• locoing