What is the difference between cook and boil?
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(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.
* Mel Bradshaw, Victim Impact
* 2011 , Mackenzie Phillips, High on Arrival
A fish, the European striped wrasse.
To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
To be being cooked.
(figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
(slang) To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
To concoct or prepare.
* 2006 , Frank Spalding, Methamphetamine: The Dangers of Crystal Meth (page 47)
To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
* Addison
(obsolete, rare) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
* 1599 , The Silkworms
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To throw.
* Grose
The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
(rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
To heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
(intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
Of a liquid, to begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
(intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) Said of weather being uncomfortably hot.
(intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot. See also seethe.
To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
(obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
* Francis Bacon
To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
* Bible, Job xii. 31
To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
* Surrey
Boil is a hyponym of cook.
In transitive terms the difference between cook and boil
is that cook is to prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients while boil is to heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.In intransitive terms the difference between cook and boil
is that cook is to be being cooked while boil is of a liquid, to begin to turn into a gas, seethe.As a proper noun Cook
is {{surname|from=occupations}.cook
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . The verb is from (etyl) coken, from the noun.Noun
(wikipedia cook) (en noun)- Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.
- By late October, the pressure on the Dark Arrows' ecstasy cook had eased. Other suppliers had moved in with product.
- 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.”
Synonyms
* (food preparation for a living) chefHyponyms
* (food preparation for a living) cordon bleuCoordinate terms
(food preparation for a living) * sous-chef * line cook * prep cook * chef (head cook of a manor house) * scullery maid * kitchen maidDerived terms
* cookbook * cookery * cooking * cook the books * cook up * cookwareVerb
(en verb)- I'm cooking bangers and mash.
- He's in the kitchen, cooking .
- The dinner is cooking on the stove.
- Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.
- ''I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab one and throw it back.
- The process of cooking meth can leave residue on surfaces all over the home, exposing all of its occupants to the drug.
- 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 offHypernyms
* (to prepare or plan something) concoct, contrive, devise, make up, plan, prepareHyponyms
* Troponyms : bake, barbecue, boil, braise, fry, grill, microwave, poach, roast, scramble, steam, stew * See alsoEtymology 2
Imitative.Verb
(en verb)- Constant cuckoos cook on every side.
Etymology 3
Unknown.Verb
(en verb)- Cook me that ball.
boil
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bile, .Synonyms
* abscess * carbuncle * cyst * furuncle * pimple * pustuleExternal links
* (Boil)Etymology 2
(etyl) "to well up, boil"). More at seethe, well.Noun
(en noun)- Add the noodles when the water comes to the boil .
Verb
(en verb)- Boil some water in a pan.
- Boil the eggs for two minutes.
- Is the rice boiling yet?
- Pure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
- It’s boiling outside!
- I’m boiling in here – could you open the window?
- to boil sugar or salt
- 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.
- the boiling waves of the sea
- He maketh the deep to boil like a pot.
- His blood boils with anger.
- Then boiled my breast with flame and burning wrath.
