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Coction vs Cooking - What's the difference?

coction | cooking |

As nouns the difference between coction and cooking

is that coction is an act of boiling while cooking is the process of preparing food by using heat.

As an adjective cooking is

in progress, happening.

As a verb cooking is

present participle of lang=en.

coction

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) An act of boiling.
  • (medicine, obsolete) digestion
  • (obsolete) The change which the humoralists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.
    • (Dunglison)
    (Webster 1913)

    cooking

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (informal) In progress, happening.
    • The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking .

    Noun

  • The process of preparing food by using heat.
  • (by extension) The process of preparing food.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=6 citation , passage=The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks?; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]}}
  • (by extension) The result of that process, a meal.
  • * I missed my mum's cooking while I was at university.
  • The style or genre of food preparation; cookery.

    • Synonyms

    (style or genre of food preparation) cuisine

    Verb

    (head)