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Cooling

//ˈkuːlɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    That cools.
  2. 2
    Of food or medicine, according to traditional Chinese medicine: serving to cool or calm the body.

    "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?"

Noun
  1. 1
    A decrease in temperature. countable
  2. 2
    a mechanism for keeping something cool wordnet
  3. 3
    Refrigeration. uncountable
  4. 4
    the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of cool form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

By surface analysis, cool + -ing.

Etymology 2

By surface analysis, cool + -ing.

Etymology 3

By surface analysis, cool + -ing.

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