Cook vs. Cooking — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cook and Cooking
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Cook
To prepare (food) for eating by applying heat.
Cooking
Cooking, cookery, or culinary arts is the art, science, and craft of using heat to prepare food for consumption. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely, from grilling food over an open fire to using electric stoves, to baking in various types of ovens, reflecting local conditions.
Cook
To prepare or treat by heating
Slowly cooked the medicinal mixture.
Cooking
To prepare (food) for eating by applying heat.
Cook
(Slang) To alter or falsify so as to make a more favorable impression; doctor
Disreputable accountants who were paid to cook the firm's books.
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Cooking
To prepare or treat by heating
Slowly cooked the medicinal mixture.
Cook
To prepare food for eating by applying heat.
Cooking
(Slang) To alter or falsify so as to make a more favorable impression; doctor
Disreputable accountants who were paid to cook the firm's books.
Cook
To undergo application of heat especially for the purpose of later ingestion.
Cooking
To prepare food for eating by applying heat.
Cook
(Slang) To happen, develop, or take place
What's cooking in town?.
Cooking
To undergo application of heat especially for the purpose of later ingestion.
Cook
(Slang) To proceed or perform very well
The band really got cooking after midnight.
Cooking
(Slang) To happen, develop, or take place
What's cooking in town?.
Cook
A person who prepares food for eating.
Cooking
(Slang) To proceed or perform very well
The band really got cooking after midnight.
Cook
(cooking) A person who prepares food.
I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.
Cooking
A person who prepares food for eating.
Cook
(cooking) The head cook of a manor house.
Cooking
(uncountable) The process of preparing food by using heat.
Cook
(cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
Cooking
An instance of preparing food by using heat.
Cook
(slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.
Cooking
The result of preparing food by using heat.
Cook
(slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
Cooking
(uncountable) One's ability to prepare food; cookery.
My cooking isn't very good. I don't have any idea how to prepare a good meal.
I missed my mum's cooking while I was at university.
Cook
A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
Cooking
(uncountable) The style or genre of food preparation.
What you've produced is a perfect example of authentic Chinese cooking.
Cook
To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
I'm cooking bangers and mash.
He's in the kitchen, cooking.
Cooking
(uncountable) The cheapest available beer for sale in a public house; cooking bitter or cooking lager.
Cook
(intransitive) To be cooked.
The dinner is cooking on the stove.
Cooking
Designed for culinary purposes
I filled the cooking pot with water
I put a lid on the cooking pan
Cook
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.
Cooking
(informal) In progress, happening.
The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking.
Cook
(slang) To execute by electric chair.
Cooking
Present participle of cook
Cook
To hold on to 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.
Cooking
The practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared; cookery.
Cook
To concoct or prepare.
Cooking
The act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.
Cook
To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
Cooking
The act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat;
Cooking can be a great art
People are needed who have experience in cookery
He left the preparation of meals to his wife
Cook
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!
Cook
To play music vigorously.
On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!
Cook
To make the noise of the cuckoo.
Cook
To throw.
Cook
To make the noise of the cuckoo.
Constant cuckoos cook on every side.
Cook
To throw.
Cook
To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.
Cook
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.
Cook
To prepare food for the table.
Cook
One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.
Cook
A fish, the European striped wrasse.
Cook
Someone who cooks food
Cook
English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
Cook
Prepare a hot meal;
My husband doesn't cook
Cook
Prepare for eating by applying heat;
Cook me dinner, please
Can you make me an omelette?
Fix breakfast for the guests, please
Cook
Transform and make suitable for consumption by heating;
These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes
Cook
Transform by heating;
The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle
Cook
Fake or falsify;
Fudge the figures
Cook the books
Falsify the data
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