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COO

abbr.
chief operating officer

coo

 (ko͞o)
v. cooed, coo·ing, coos
v.intr.
1. To utter the murmuring sound of a dove or pigeon or a sound resembling it.
2. To talk fondly or amorously in murmurs: The visitors cooed over the newborn baby.
v.tr.
To express or utter with soft murmuring sounds.

[Imitative.]

coo′er n.
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coo

(kuː)
vb, coos, cooing or cooed
1. (Zoology) (intr) (of doves, pigeons, etc) to make a characteristic soft throaty call
2. (tr) to speak in a soft murmur
3. (intr) to murmur lovingly (esp in the phrase bill and coo)
n
(Zoology) the sound of cooing
interj
slang Brit an exclamation of surprise, awe, etc
ˈcooer n

CoO

abbreviation for
(Economics) cost of ownership

COO

abbreviation for
(Industrial Relations & HR Terms) chief operating officer
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coo

(ku)

v.i.
1. to utter or imitate the soft, murmuring sound characteristic of doves.
2. to murmur or talk fondly or amorously.
v.t.
3. to utter by cooing.
n.
4. a cooing sound.
[1660–70; imitative]
coo′er, n.
coo′ing•ly, adv.
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coo


Past participle: cooed
Gerund: cooing

Imperative
coo
coo
Present
I coo
you coo
he/she/it coos
we coo
you coo
they coo
Preterite
I cooed
you cooed
he/she/it cooed
we cooed
you cooed
they cooed
Present Continuous
I am cooing
you are cooing
he/she/it is cooing
we are cooing
you are cooing
they are cooing
Present Perfect
I have cooed
you have cooed
he/she/it has cooed
we have cooed
you have cooed
they have cooed
Past Continuous
I was cooing
you were cooing
he/she/it was cooing
we were cooing
you were cooing
they were cooing
Past Perfect
I had cooed
you had cooed
he/she/it had cooed
we had cooed
you had cooed
they had cooed
Future
I will coo
you will coo
he/she/it will coo
we will coo
you will coo
they will coo
Future Perfect
I will have cooed
you will have cooed
he/she/it will have cooed
we will have cooed
you will have cooed
they will have cooed
Future Continuous
I will be cooing
you will be cooing
he/she/it will be cooing
we will be cooing
you will be cooing
they will be cooing
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been cooing
you have been cooing
he/she/it has been cooing
we have been cooing
you have been cooing
they have been cooing
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been cooing
you will have been cooing
he/she/it will have been cooing
we will have been cooing
you will have been cooing
they will have been cooing
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been cooing
you had been cooing
he/she/it had been cooing
we had been cooing
you had been cooing
they had been cooing
Conditional
I would coo
you would coo
he/she/it would coo
we would coo
you would coo
they would coo
Past Conditional
I would have cooed
you would have cooed
he/she/it would have cooed
we would have cooed
you would have cooed
they would have cooed
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.coo - the sound made by a pigeon
cry - the characteristic utterance of an animal; "animal cries filled the night"
Verb1.coo - speak softly or lovingly; "The mother who held her baby was cooing softly"
murmur - speak softly or indistinctly; "She murmured softly to the baby in her arms"
2.coo - cry softly, as of pigeons
let loose, let out, utter, emit - express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words); "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand"
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Translations
هدل
vrkatvrkot
kujerrus

coo

1 [kuː] VI [dove] → arrullar; [baby] → hacer gorgoritos

coo

2 [kuː] EXCL (Brit) → ¡toma!, ¡vaya!
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

COO

[ˌsiːəʊˈəʊ] n abbr (=chief operating officer) → président(e) m/f

coo

[ˈkuː] viroucouler
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

COO

abbr of chief operating officerhöchster diensthabender Offizier

coo

vi (pigeon, fig) → gurren
vtgurren, girren
nGurren nt, → Girren nt
interj (Brit, inf) → ui
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

coo

[kuː]
1. vi (dove) → tubare
2. vtsussurrare dolcemente
to coo over a baby → fare versetti a un bimbo
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

coo

vi (pret & pp cooed) (ped) arrullar, hacer sonidos como una paloma
English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
References in classic literature ?
Among the company at the door were the mineralogist and the owner of the gold opera glass whom we had encountered in the Notch; two Georgian gentlemen, who had chilled their southern blood that morning on the top of Mount Washington; a physician and his wife from Conway; a trader of Burlington, and an old squire of the Green Mountains; and two young married couples, all the way from Massachusetts, on the matrimonial jaunt, Besides these strangers, the rugged county of Coos, in which we were, was represented by half a dozen wood-cutters, who had slain a bear in the forest and smitten off his paw.
But tell me now, once more, all about little Kay; and why you have started off in the wide world alone." And Gerda related all, from the very beginning: the Wood-pigeons cooed above in their cage, and the others slept.
Then the Wood-pigeons said, "Coo! Cool We have seen little Kay!
It was only the soft twitter of a bird, but it seemed to be a peculiarly gifted bird, for while she listened the soft twitter changed to a lively whistle, then a trill, a coo, a chirp, and ended in a musical mixture of all the notes, as if the bird burst out laughing.
The girl wiped her hands, crossed her feet on the little island of carpet where she was stranded in a sea of soap-suds, and then, sure enough, out of her slender throat came the swallow's twitter, the robin's whistle, the blue-jay's call, the thrush's song, the wood-dove's coo, and many another familiar note, all ending as before with the musical ecstacy of a bobolink singing and swinging among the meadow grass on a bright June day.
Chihun gave him a ball of spices, and tickled him under the chin, and Chihun's little baby cooed to him after work was over.
Sometimes he came home with his head bandaged, and then Wendy cooed over him and bathed it in lukewarm water, while he told a dazzling tale.
As she was thinking of these things the while she debated the wisdom of uncovering the baby's face, there came a little grunt from the wee bundle in her lap, and then a gurgling coo that set her heart in raptures.
For the most part it was a silent forest, lush and dank, where only occasionally a wood-pigeon cooed or snow- white cockatoos laughed harshly in laborious flight.
Coos is not tike the state's other counties, Woodburn argued passionately.
The terms of the acquisition are set out in an agreement between Curzon Energy, YA Global Investors LLP and Coos Bay.
24 May 2017 - UK-based natural gas company Curzon Energy plc has agreed conditionally to acquire Oregon, US-based energy company Coos Bay Energy LLC, the company said.