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Cooling vs Codling - What's the difference?

cooling | codling |

As verbs the difference between cooling and codling

is that cooling is while codling is .

As nouns the difference between cooling and codling

is that cooling is a decrease in temperature while codling is a small, young cod or codling can be a small, immature apple.

As an adjective cooling

is that cools.

cooling

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • a decrease in temperature
  • refrigeration
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • that cools
  • Derived terms

    * cooling board * cooling curve * cooling-off period * cooling pond * cooling rack * cooling tower

    codling

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, young cod
  • * 1922 , Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle'', part 4, chapter 2, ''The Fidgit's Story :
  • “Here a couple of old men in whiskers and spectacles leant over us, making strange sounds. Some codling had got caught in the net the same time as we were. These the old men threw back into the sea; but us they seemed to think very precious. …”
  • A hake (cod-related food fish), notably from the genus .
  • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • Etymology 3

    * Some dictionaries including Merriam-Webster online list (etyl) querdlyng, being equivalent to modern (-ling). * Some dictionaries including Collins online list “Unknown”.

    Alternative forms

    * codlin

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, immature apple
  • * 1601–02 , , Twelfth Night , act 1, scene 5:
  • Malvolio: Not yet old enough for a man, nor yong enough
    for a boy: as a squash is before tis a pescod, or a Codling
    when tis almost an Apple: Tis with him in standing water,
    betweene boy and man. He is verie well-fauour'd,
    and he speakes verie shrewishly: One would thinke his
    mothers milke were scarse out of him
  • * 1800 , Hannah Glasse and Maria Wilson, The Complete Confectioner'', ''Creams, &c. :
  • To make Codling' Cream.
    Take twenty fair '
    codlings
    , core them, beat them in a mortar with a pint of cream, strain it into a dish, put into it some crumbs of brown bread, with a little-sack, and dish it up.
  • Any of various greenish, elongated English apple varieties, used for cooking
  • See also codling moth, which plant their lavae in apples.