Cook vs Caterer - What's the difference?
cook | caterer |
(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
A person employed to obtain and maintain the storage of provisions, especially food.
* 1821 June 19, ”Peregrine,” The Traveller: Letter IV'', in ''The Kaleidoscope; Or, Literary and Scientific Mirror ,
* 1830 , , The King?s Own'', 1840, ''The Complete Works of Captain F. Marryatt , Volume I,
* 1838 , The Southern Literary Messenger , Volume IV,
A person or company hired to provide and serve food, usually for a large group and at a location separate from where the food is prepared.
* 1979 July 23, Andrew O. Shapiro, Of Canceled Parties and the Beleaguered Teenager'', '' ,
* 1994 , John N. Ingham, Lynne B. Feldman, Dutrieuille, Peter Albert (1838—1916) and Albert E. Dutrieuille (July 26, 1877—April 25, 1974)'', entry in ''African-American Business Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary ,
* 2008 , Zushe Yosef Blech, Kosher Food Production ,
As nouns the difference between cook and caterer
is that cook is a person who prepares food for a living while caterer is a person employed to obtain and maintain the storage of provisions, especially food.As a verb cook
is to prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.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.
caterer
English
(Catering)Noun
(en noun)page 401,
- It was in vain that I petitioned, appealing to our caterer , if proofs of appetite were wanting; for sick men seldom have occasion for that important person?s services.
page 335,
- “I say, Mr. Cribbage ,” cried an old master?s-mate, to the caterer , who had entered shortly after the tea-kettles, and assumed his place at the end of the table, “what sort of stuff do you call this?”
page 263,
- There is a caterer for the table, whose sleekness of face, rotundity of person, and general air of comfortable well-being, do great honor to the cheer he provides.
page 64,
- If so, you will probably sign a contract with a caterer months, maybe years, in advance and make a substantial down payment.
page 225,
- From a family of French West African descent, Albert Dutrieuille was the last of the great African-American caterers in Philadelphia.
page 176,
- Although many hotels work with outside Kosher caterers to provide Kosher services, some have developed their own in-house Kosher catering departments.