Cook vs. Shifter
Cooknoun
(cooking) A person who prepares food for a living.
Shifternoun
One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
Cooknoun
(cooking) The head cook of a manor house
Shifternoun
(linguistics) A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.
Cooknoun
(slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
‘Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.’;
Shifternoun
(dated) One who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.
Cooknoun
(slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
Shifternoun
(nautical) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
Cooknoun
A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
Shifternoun
(engineering) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
Cookverb
(transitive) To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
‘I'm cooking bangers and mash.’;
Shifternoun
A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
Cookverb
(intransitive) To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
‘He's in the kitchen, cooking.’;
Shifternoun
(cycling) A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.
Cookverb
(intransitive) To be being cooked.
‘The dinner is cooking on the stove.’;
Shifternoun
A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
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.’;
Shifternoun
A person employed to repair the horseways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed.
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.’;
Shifternoun
A switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting.
Cookverb
To concoct or prepare.
Shifternoun
A shape-shifter, or a person or other being capable of changing their physical form.
Cookverb
To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
Shifternoun
(erotica) A genre of erotica focusing on lycanthropes or other shapeshifters, such as werewolves.
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!’;
Shifternoun
One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.
‘'T was such a shifter that, if truth were known,Death was half glad when he had got him down.’;
Cookverb
To play music vigorously.
‘On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!’;
Shifternoun
An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
Cookverb
To make the noise of the cuckoo.
Shifternoun
An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
Cookverb
To throw.
Shifternoun
A foreman responsible for the work on one shift in one area, as in one heading{4}.
Cookverb
To make the noise of the cuckoo.
‘Constant cuckoos cook on every side.’;
Shifternoun
a stagehand responsible for moving scenery
Cookverb
To throw.
Shifternoun
a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears;
‘in England they call a gearshift a gear lever’;
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’;
