cooling

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, cool +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːlɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːlɪŋ

Verb

cooling

1. present participle and gerund of cool

Noun

cooling (countable and uncountable, plural coolings)

1. A decrease in temperature.
2. Refrigeration.

Derived terms

• 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
• overcooling
• Peltier cooling
• Sisyphus cooling
• subcooling
• telecooling

 

Translations

decrease in temperature

• Finnish: jäähtyminen (fi), viilentyminen
• French: refroidissement (fr) m
• Hungarian: hűlés (hu), lehűlés (hu)
• Irish: fuarú m
• Italian: raffreddamento (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjøling m or f, avkjøling m or f

  Nynorsk: kjøling f, avkjøling f

• Polish: ochłodzenie (pl) n
• Russian: похолода́ние (ru) n (poxolodánije) (weather), охлажде́ние (ru) n (oxlaždénije)
• Slovak: ochladenie, chladnutie
• Spanish: enfriamiento (es) m

refrigeration

• Belarusian: ахало́джванне n (axalódžvannje) (process), ахаладжэ́нне n (axaladžénnje) (state)
• Bulgarian: охлаждане (bg) n (ohlaždane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冷卻 / 冷却 (zh) (lěngquè)

• Czech: chlazení n
• Finnish: jäähdyttäminen (fi), viilentäminen (fi) (process)
• French: refroidissement (fr) m
• German: Kühlung (de) f
• Hebrew: קירור m (qirur)
• Hungarian: hűtés (hu), lehűtés (hu)
• Italian: raffreddamento (it) m
• Japanese: 冷却 (ja) (れいきゃく, reikyaku)
• Korean: 냉각(冷却) (ko) (naenggak), 랭각(冷却) (ko) (raenggak) (North Korea)
• Macedonian: разладување n (razladuvanje), ладење n (ladenje)
• Polish: chłodzenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: arrefecimento (pt) m, refrigeração (pt) f
• Russian: охлажде́ние (ru) n (oxlaždénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хлађење n

  Roman: hlađenje n

• Slovak: chladenie n
• Slovene: hlajenje n
• Spanish: enfriamiento (es) m
• Ukrainian: охоло́дження n (oxolódžennja)

Adjective

cooling (comparative more cooling, superlative most cooling)

1. That cools.
2. (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

• (that cools): frigorific
• (serving to cool or calm the body):

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “serving to cool or calm the body”): heaty

Derived terms

• cooling board
• cooling curve
• cooling glasses
• cooling-off period
• cooling pond
• cooling rack
• cooling tower

 

Translations

that cools

• Belarusian: ахаладжа́льны (axaladžálʹny)
• Finnish: viilentävä, jäähdyttävä (fi)
• Hungarian: (making cool) hűtő (hu), lehűtő, hűsítő (hu), (getting cool) hűlő, lehűlő
• Macedonian: разладен m (razladen)
• Portuguese: refrigerante (pt) m
• Russian: охлажда́ющий (ru) (oxlaždájuščij)
• Slovak: chladiaci
• Spanish: refrigerante
• Ukrainian: охоло́джувальний (oxolódžuvalʹnyj)

References

• “cooling”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• locoing