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Doing vs Cooking - What's the difference?

doing | cooking |

As verbs the difference between doing and cooking

is that doing is (rare|chiefly|netherlands|nonstandard) while cooking is .

As an adjective cooking is

(informal) in progress, happening.

As a noun cooking is

the process of preparing food by using heat.

doing

English

Alternative forms

* (pedantic)

Etymology 1

See (do).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.
    • This is his doing . (= "He did it.")

    Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    Onomatopœic.

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object.
    • Synonyms
    * boing

    Statistics

    *

    Anagrams

    * * * English onomatopoeias

    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)