Cook vs. Prepare — What's the Difference?

To prepare (food) for eating by applying heat.

To make ready beforehand for a specific purpose, as for an event or occasion

To prepare or treat by heating

To put together or make by combining various elements or ingredients; manufacture or compound

(Slang) To alter or falsify so as to make a more favorable impression; doctor

To fit out; equip

To prepare food for eating by applying heat.

(Music) To lead up to and soften (a dissonance or its impact) by means of preparation.

To undergo application of heat especially for the purpose of later ingestion.

To make things or oneself ready

(Slang) To happen, develop, or take place

(transitive) To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble or equip.

(Slang) To proceed or perform very well

(transitive) To make ready for eating or drinking; to cook.

A person who prepares food for eating.

(intransitive) To make oneself ready; to get ready, make preparation.

(cooking) A person who prepares food.

(transitive) To produce or make by combining elements; to synthesize, compound.

(cooking) The head cook of a manor house.

(obsolete) preparation

(cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food.

To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson.

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

To procure as suitable or necessary; to get ready; to provide; as, to prepare ammunition and provisions for troops; to prepare ships for defence; to prepare an entertainment.

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

To make all things ready; to put things in order; as, to prepare for a hostile invasion.

A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

To make one's self ready; to get ready; to take the necessary previous measures; as, to prepare for death.

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

Preparation.

(intransitive) To be cooked.

Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc;

To be uncomfortably hot.

Prepare for eating by applying heat;

(slang) To execute by electric chair.

To prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery;

To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.

Arrange by systematic planning and united effort;

To concoct or prepare.

Prepare (someone) for a future role or function;

To tamper with or alter; to cook up.

Create by training and teaching;

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

Lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord;

To play music vigorously.

Undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession;

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

To throw.

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

To throw.

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

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.

To prepare food for the table.

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

A fish, the European striped wrasse.

Someone who cooks food

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

Prepare a hot meal;

Prepare for eating by applying heat;

Transform and make suitable for consumption by heating;

Transform by heating;

Fake or falsify;