cooling
adjectivenounverbattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈkuːlɪŋ//
- United States//ˈkulɪŋ//
That cools.
adjective
- 1
That cools.
- 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?
Etymology
By surface analysis, cool + -ing.
noun
- 1
A decrease in temperature.
- 2
Refrigeration.
verb
- 1
Also a form of coolpresent participle and gerund of cool
Forms
- plural
- coolings
- comparative
- more cooling
- superlative
- most cooling