cooling

SayKOO-lingUS/ˈkulɪŋ/UK/ˈkuːlɪŋ/

Noun pluralcoolings

5 meanings of cooling

1
verb
Present participle and gerund of cool. Use it when something is getting less hot, or as the name of that action.
The soup is cooling on the windowsill.
She kept cooling the engine with damp cloths.
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2
adjective
Making something cooler or less hot.
Like a cold drink that makes you feel less hot.
A cooling breeze blew in from the sea.
She drank a cooling glass of lemonade after the run.
Similarrefreshing, chilling, soothing
Oppositeheating
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3
nouncountable
A drop in temperature, when something becomes less hot.
There was a sudden cooling after the sun went down.
A quick cooling of the metal made it brittle.
Similardrop, fall, chill, decrease
Oppositewarming, heating, rise
4
noununcountable
Keeping food or other things cold so they do not go bad.
Like a fridge that stops your food from going bad.
The warehouse uses cooling to keep the vegetables fresh.
Without cooling, the milk would spoil quickly.
Similarrefrigeration, chilling
Oppositeheating
5
adjective
In Chinese medicine, describing food or medicine that cools or calms the body.
Grandma says cucumber is a cooling food good for hot days.
She brewed a cooling tea to bring down his fever.
Oppositeheating
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cooling is a form of cool

cool, verb: To make something less warm, or to become less warm. Full entry

Forms: coolcools he/she/itcooling -ing formcooled past tense, past participle
Spelling: cool → cooling: add -ing

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Origin

This word comes from "cool" plus the ending "-ing."