cooling
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, cool + -ing.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkuːlɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkulɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -uːlɪŋ
- Hyphenation: cool‧ing
Adjective
[edit]cooling (comparative more cooling, superlative most cooling)
- That cools.
- Synonym: frigorific
- (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
[edit]Translations
[edit]that cools
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Noun
[edit]cooling (countable and uncountable, plural coolings)
- (countable) A decrease in temperature.
- (uncountable) Refrigeration.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]decrease in temperature
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refrigeration
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Verb
[edit]cooling
- present participle and gerund of cool
Further reading
[edit]- “cooling”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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