cook English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .
The verb is from (etyl) coken, from the noun.
Noun
( wikipedia cook)
( en noun)
(cooking) A person who prepares food for a living.
(cooking) The head cook of a manor house
(slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
- Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.
* Mel Bradshaw, Victim Impact
- By late October, the pressure on the Dark Arrows' ecstasy cook had eased. Other suppliers had moved in with product.
* 2011 , Mackenzie Phillips, High on Arrival
- Owsley Stanley was a pioneer LSD cook , and the Purple Owsley pill from his now-defunct lab was Dad's prized possession, a rare, potent, druggie collector's item, the alleged inspiration for the Hendrix song “Purple Haze.”
A fish, the European striped wrasse.
Synonyms
* (food preparation for a living) chef
Hyponyms
* (food preparation for a living) cordon bleu
Coordinate terms
(food preparation for a living)
* sous-chef
* line cook
* prep cook
* chef
(head cook of a manor house)
* scullery maid
* kitchen maid
Derived terms
* cookbook
* cookery
* cooking
* cook the books
* cook up
* cookware
Verb
( en verb)
To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
- I'm cooking bangers and mash.
To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
- He's in the kitchen, cooking .
To be being cooked.
- The dinner is cooking on the stove.
(figuratively) 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.
(slang) 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.
To concoct or prepare.
* 2006 , Frank Spalding, Methamphetamine: The Dangers of Crystal Meth (page 47)
- The process of cooking meth can leave residue on surfaces all over the home, exposing all of its occupants to the drug.
To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
* Addison
- 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.
Synonyms
* (to be uncomfortably hot) bake, stew
* (hold on to a grenade) cook off
Hypernyms
* (to prepare or plan something) concoct, contrive, devise, make up, plan, prepare
Hyponyms
* Troponyms : bake, barbecue, boil, braise, fry, grill, microwave, poach, roast, scramble, steam, stew
* See also
Etymology 2
Imitative.
Verb
( en verb)
(obsolete, rare) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
* 1599 , The Silkworms
- Constant cuckoos cook on every side.
Etymology 3
Unknown.
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boil English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bile, .
Noun
( en noun)
A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
Synonyms
* abscess
* carbuncle
* cyst
* furuncle
* pimple
* pustule
External links
* (Boil)
Etymology 2
(etyl) "to well up, boil"). More at seethe, well.
Noun
( en noun)
The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
- Add the noodles when the water comes to the boil .
A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
(rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
Verb
( en verb)
To heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
- Boil some water in a pan.
(intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
- Boil the eggs for two minutes.
- Is the rice boiling yet?
Of a liquid, to begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
- Pure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
(intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) Said of weather being uncomfortably hot.
- It’s boiling outside!
(intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot. See also seethe.
- I’m boiling in here – could you open the window?
To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
- to boil sugar or salt
(obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
* Francis Bacon
- To try whether seeds be old or new, the sense cannot inform; but if you boil them in water, the new seeds will sprout sooner.
To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
- the boiling waves of the sea
* Bible, Job xii. 31
- He maketh the deep to boil like a pot.
To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
- His blood boils with anger.
* Surrey
- Then boiled my breast with flame and burning wrath.
Synonyms
* (of a liquid) seethe, well, plaw ; see also
* (of the weather) be baking]], be scorching, [[swelter, be sweltering
* (of a person) be seething]], be baking, [[stew, be stewing
Antonyms
* (of a liquid) condense
* (of the weather) be freezing
* (of a person) be freezing
Derived terms
* boil away
* boil down
* boil down to
* boil off
* boil over
* go off the boil
* hard-boiled
* make someone's blood boil
* parboil
* pot boiler
* slow boil
* soft-boiled
Related terms
* ebullient
See also
* bake
* condense
* freeze
* fry
* grill
* poach
* steam
External links
* (Boiling)
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