Cook vs. Shifter — What's the Difference?

To prepare (food) for eating by applying heat.

To exchange (one thing) for another of the same class

To prepare or treat by heating

To move or transfer from one place or position to another.

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

To alter (position or place).

To prepare food for eating by applying heat.

To change (gears), as in an automobile.

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

(Linguistics) To alter phonetically as part of a systematic historical change.

(Slang) To happen, develop, or take place

To change position, direction, place, or form.

(Slang) To proceed or perform very well

To provide for one's own needs; get along

A person who prepares food for eating.

To get along by tricky or evasive means.

(cooking) A person who prepares food.

To change gears, as when driving an automobile.

(cooking) The head cook of a manor house.

(Linguistics) To be altered as part of a systematic historical change. Used of speech sounds.

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

To use a shift key.

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

A change from one person or configuration to another; a substitution.

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

A group of workers that relieve another on a regular schedule.

A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

The working period of such a group

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

A means to an end; an expedient.

(intransitive) To be cooked.

A stratagem; a trick.

To be uncomfortably hot.

A change in direction

(slang) To execute by electric chair.

A change in attitude, judgment, or emphasis.

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

(Music) A change of the hand position in playing the violin or a similar instrument.

To concoct or prepare.

(Football) A rearrangement of players from one formation to another just prior to the snap of the ball.

To tamper with or alter; to cook up.

(Baseball) A rearrangement of one or more fielders for improved defense against a particular hitter.

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

(Geology) See fault.

To play music vigorously.

(Computers) Movement of characters in a register to the left or right, as of the bits in a byte.

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

The act or an instance of using a shift key.

To throw.

(Physics) A change in wavelength, causing a movement of a spectral band or line.

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

A systematic change of the phonetic or phonemic structure of a language.

To throw.

Functional shift.

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

A loosely fitting dress that hangs straight from the shoulder; a chemise.

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.

A woman's undergarment; a slip or chemise.

To prepare food for the table.

One who, or that which, shifts or changes.

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

(linguistics) A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.

A fish, the European striped wrasse.

(dated) One who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.

Someone who cooks food

(nautical) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.

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

(engineering) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.

Prepare a hot meal;

A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.

Prepare for eating by applying heat;

(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.

Transform and make suitable for consumption by heating;

A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.

Transform by heating;

A person employed to repair the horseways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed.

Fake or falsify;

A switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting.

A shape-shifter, or a person or other being capable of changing their physical form.

(erotica) A genre of erotica focusing on lycanthropes or other shapeshifters, such as werewolves.

A person who changes the reality their consciousness resides in, through meditation or other means.

One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.

An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.

An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.

A foreman responsible for the work on one shift in one area, as in one heading{4}.

A stagehand responsible for moving scenery

A mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears;