cooking

1. To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

   I'm cooking bangers and mash.

2. To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

   He's in the kitchen, cooking.

3. To be cooked.

   The dinner is cooking on the stove.

4. To be uncomfortably hot.

   Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.

5. To execute by electric chair.
6. To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
7. To concoct or prepare.
8. To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
9. To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)

   Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!

10. To play music vigorously.

    On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!

verb

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

verb

To throw.

1. The process of preparing food by using heat.
2. An instance of preparing food by using heat.
3. The result of preparing food by using heat.

1. In progress, happening.

   The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking.