cooling
Syllables: cool·ing/ˈkuːlɪŋ/US/ˈkulɪŋ/
cooling adjective: that cools. Also the present participle and gerund of cool.
Adjective
cooling (comparative more cooling, superlative most cooling)
- That cools.
- Synonyms:
- frigorific
- 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?1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy; 1), London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 187
- Antonyms:
- heaty
Noun
cooling (countable and uncountable, plural coolings)
- A decrease in temperature.
- Refrigeration.
Also used as
cooling is also the present participle and gerund of cool.
cooling meaning in Marathi, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
cooling in Marathi
- थंड करणे, शीतकरण
cooling in Urdu
- کولنگ
cooling in Malayalam
- തണുപ്പിക്കൽ
cooling in Kannada
- ತಂಪಾಗಿಸುವಿಕೆ, ತಂಪಾಗಿಸುವುದು
More languagesFewer languages
- cooling in Punjabi
- ਠੰਡਾ ਕਰਨਾ
- cooling in Odia
- ଶୀତଳ କରିବା
- cooling in Nepali
- शीतलन, शीतलीकरण
Synonyms of cooling
Antonyms
Forms of cooling
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more cooling |
| superlative | most cooling |
| Noun | |
| plural | coolings |
Origin of cooling
By surface analysis, cool + -ing.
Words formed from cooling
- cooling board
- cooling center
- cooling curve
- cooling glass
- cooling glasses
- cooling-off period
- cooling pond
- cooling rack
- cooling shelter
- cooling station
- cooling tower
- cooling water
- adiabatic cooling
- aftercooling
- coolingly
- cooling plant
- cooling time
- cryocooling
- decooling
- district cooling
- dynamic cooling
- evaporative cooling
- expansion cooling
- free-cooling
- global cooling
- heroic cooling
- house cooling party
- laser cooling
- lubro-cooling
- overcooling
- Peltier cooling
- Sisyphus cooling
- subcooling
- telecooling
Phrases with cooling
- cooling off
- cooling out
- cooling card
- cooling down
- cooling cards
- cooling times
- cooling centre
- cooling plants
- cooling towers
- cooling centers
- cooling centres
- cooling shelters
4 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with cooling
Questions about cooling
- What does cooling mean?
- Cooling means that cools.
- What is cooling in Marathi?
- Cooling in Marathi is थंड करणे, शीतकरण. See Cooling meaning in Marathi.
- What part of speech is cooling?
- Cooling can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce cooling?
- Cooling is pronounced /ˈkuːlɪŋ/ (UK).
Words near cooling in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cooling (page history and authors); cooling (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cooling (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cooling (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cooling (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cooling (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cooling (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cooling (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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