Concoct vs. Cook

Concoctverb

To prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking.

‘to concoct a potion’; ‘to concoct a new dish’;

Cooknoun

(cooking) A person who prepares food for a living.

Concoctverb

(figurative) To contrive something using skill or ingenuity.

‘to concoct a cunning plan’;

Cooknoun

(cooking) The head cook of a manor house

Concoctverb

(obsolete) To digest.

Cooknoun

(slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

‘Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.’;

Concoctverb

To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.

‘Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates.’;

Cooknoun

(slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

Concoctverb

To purify or refine chemically.

Cooknoun

A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

Concoctverb

To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage.

Cookverb

(transitive) To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

‘I'm cooking bangers and mash.’;

Concoctverb

To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot.

‘He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct any great fortune.’;

Cookverb

(intransitive) To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

‘He's in the kitchen, cooking.’;

Concoctverb

To mature or perfect; to ripen.

Cookverb

(intransitive) To be being cooked.

‘The dinner is cooking on the stove.’;

Concoctverb

make a concoction (of) by mixing

Cookverb

To be uncomfortably hot.

‘Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.’;

Concoctverb

prepare or cook by mixing ingredients;

‘concoct a strange mixture’;

Cookverb

To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.

‘I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab one and throw it back.’;

Concoctverb

of charges

Cookverb

To concoct or prepare.

Concoctverb

devise or invent;

‘He thought up a plan to get rich quickly’; ‘no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software’;

Cookverb

To tamper with or alter; to cook up.

Cookverb

To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)

‘Watch this band: they cook!’; ‘Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!’;

Cookverb

To play music vigorously.

‘On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!’;

Cookverb

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

Cookverb

To throw.

Cookverb

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

‘Constant cuckoos cook on every side.’;

Cookverb

To throw.

Cookverb

To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.

Cookverb

To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; - often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.

‘They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different.’;

Cookverb

To prepare food for the table.

Cooknoun

One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.

Cooknoun

A fish, the European striped wrasse.

Cooknoun

someone who cooks food

Cooknoun

English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)

Cookverb

prepare a hot meal;

‘My husband doesn't cook’;

Cookverb

prepare for eating by applying heat;

‘Cook me dinner, please’; ‘can you make me an omelette?’; ‘fix breakfast for the guests, please’;

Cookverb

transform and make suitable for consumption by heating;

‘These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes’;

Cookverb

transform by heating;

‘The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle’;

Cookverb

fake or falsify;

‘Fudge the figures’; ‘cook the books’; ‘falsify the data’;