cooling

«cooling» in Mova's school dictionary: becoming cooler or making something cooler — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb form (-ing of cool: cooling); adjective (cooling); noun (cooling — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Cooling means becoming cooler or making something cooler. tree →

2) As an adjective, cooling describes something that makes you feel cooler, like a cooling breeze or drink. tree →

3) Cooling (noun) is the process of lowering temperature, or a system that does it. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, cooling is a change of temperature: when a liquid cools enough it freezes, and when a gas cools it condenses into liquid (water vapour on a cold window). Hot things lose heat to cooler surroundings until they are the same temperature. Lava cools to make rock. In cooking, «leave to cool» before cutting or eating. Phrases: «cooling down», «cooling off», «cooling system», «cooling breeze», «cooling-off period».

examples

• Leave the cake on the rack for cooling. tree →
• The soup is cooling, so wait a minute. tree →
• A cooling breeze came off the sea. tree →
• Water vapour turns to liquid when it is cooling. tree →
• After the race we did cooling-down stretches. tree →
• The lava is cooling and turning into rock. tree →
• A fridge has a cooling system inside. tree →
• Let's take a break so everyone can cool off; the cooling-off time helps. tree →

note

Form of «cool»: cool, cools, cooled, cooling. «Cooling down» (getting cooler or slowing down after exercise), «cooling off» (calming down after anger). Cooling is the opposite of heating or warming.

In the corpora

• Running chatbots in data centres uses a lot of electricity, and cooling the computers often uses water.
• Distillation is boiling a liquid and cooling the steam back to liquid; the drops are pure water, and the salt stays behind.
• Water puts out fires mainly by cooling, because it soaks up a lot of heat as it turns to steam.
• Scratching chickenpox spots can cause infection and scars, so keep nails short and use the cooling lotion an adult gives you.
• A burn is cooled under cool running water for 20 minutes and an adult is told, because cooling stops the burn going deeper.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cooling» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.