cooling
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
cooling
- present participle and gerund of cool
Noun edit
cooling (plural coolings)
- A decrease in temperature.
- Refrigeration.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
decrease in temperature
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refrigeration
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Adjective edit
cooling (comparative more cooling, superlative most cooling)
- That cools.
- (Asian English). Of food or medicine, according to traditional Chinese medicine: serving to cool or calm the body.
- 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, 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?"
Synonyms edit
- (that cools): frigorific
- (serving to cool or calm the body):
Antonyms edit
- (antonym(s) of “serving to cool or calm the body”): heaty
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
that cools
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References edit
- “cooling”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.