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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cooling/#m1)

2) As an adjective, cooling describes something that makes you feel cooler, like a cooling breeze or drink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cooling/#m2)

3) Cooling (noun) is the process of lowering temperature, or a system that does it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cooling/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cooling/#x1)
- The soup is cooling, so wait a minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cooling/#x2)
- A cooling breeze came off the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cooling/#x3)
- Water vapour turns to liquid when it is cooling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cooling/#x4)
- After the race we did cooling-down stretches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cooling/#x5)
- The lava is cooling and turning into rock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cooling/#x6)
- A fridge has a cooling system inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cooling/#x7)
- Let's take a break so everyone can cool off; the cooling-off time helps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cooling/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/13/)
- [Distillation is boiling a liquid and cooling the steam back to liquid; the drops are pure water, and the salt stays behind.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/12/)
- [Water puts out fires mainly by cooling, because it soaks up a lot of heat as it turns to steam.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/12-fire-what-it-needs/15/)
- [Scratching chickenpox spots can cause infection and scars, so keep nails short and use the cooling lotion an adult gives you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/16/)
- [A burn is cooled under cool running water for 20 minutes and an adult is told, because cooling stops the burn going deeper.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/210-first-aid-medicine-and-sun/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cooling» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cooling/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.