Cook vs Clock - What's the difference?
cook | clock |
(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
An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
(British) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
(electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
The seed head of a dandelion.
A timeclock.
To measure the duration of.
To measure the speed of.
(slang) To hit (someone) heavily.
(slang) To take notice of; to realise.
* 2006 , (Lily Allen), Knock 'Em Out
(British, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
(transitive, New Zealand, slang) To beat a video game.
A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
* {{quote-journal, 1882, journal=Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri, author= W.S. Gilbert, title=When you're lying awake
, passage=But this you can't stand, so you throw up your hand,
and you find you're as cold as an icicle,
In your shirt and your socks (the black silk with gold clocks ),
crossing Salisbury Plain on a bicycle}}* {{quote-journal, 1894, journal=Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, author=William Barnes, page=110, title=Grammer's Shoes
, passage=She'd a gown wi' girt flowers lik' hollyhocks
An zome stockèns o' gramfer's a-knit wi' clocks }}* {{quote-book, 2004, title=Traditional Scandinavian Knitting, author=Sheila McGregor, page=60, publisher=Courier Dover
, passage=Most decoration involved the ankle clocks , and several are shown on p.15 in the form of charts.}}
* {{quote-book, 2006, title=Fashion Source Book, author=J. Munslow, Kathryn McKelvey, page=231
, passage=Clocks : These are ornamental designs embroidered or woven on to the ankles of stockings.}}
(dated) To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
(Webster 1913)
1000 English basic words
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As a proper noun cook
is .As a noun clock is
an instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece or clock can be a pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking or clock can be a large beetle, especially the european dung beetle (scarabaeus stercorarius ).As a verb clock is
to measure the duration of or clock can be to ornament (eg the side of a stocking) with figured work or clock can be (dated) to make the sound of a hen; to cluck.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.
clock
English
(wikipedia clock)Etymology 1
c. 1350–1400, (etyl) , (etyl) Glocke, (etyl) klocka. More at (laugh).Alternative forms
* (contraction used in electronics)Noun
(en noun)- This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock .
- I can't go off to lunch yet, I'm still on the clock .
- We let the guys use the shop's tools and equipment for their own projects as long as they're off the clock .
Synonyms
* (instrument used to measure or keep track of time) timepiece * (odometer of a motor vehicle) odometerDerived terms
* a broken clock is right twice a day * alarm clock * atomic clock * beat the clock * biological clock * body clock * carriage clock * case clock * clean someone's clock * clock generator * clockhouse * clock radio * clock signal * clock-watcher * clockwise * clockwork * cuckoo clock * dandelion clock * face that would stop a clock * grandfather clock * o'clock * on the clock * run down the clock * shot clock * time clock * wall clock * water clock * work against the clock * work around the clock / work round the clockVerb
(en verb)- He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
- When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
- Clock the wheels on that car!
- He finally clocked that there were no more cornflakes.
- Cut to the pub on a lads night out,
- Man at the bar cos it was his shout,
- Clocks this bird and she looks OK,
- Caught him looking and she walks his way,
- I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.
- Have you clocked that game yet?
Quotations
* to take notice of ** {{quote-book, 2000, title=Naugahide Days: The Lost Island Stories of Thomas Wood Briar, author=Phil Austin, page=109citation, passage=Bo John and I twisted our heads around as Miranda braked over to the gravelly shoulder, let the Scout wheeze to a stop. She was climbing out, hurrying back to whatever had caught her eye. Bo John leered into the door mirror, clocking her flouncing, leggy strut.}} ** {{quote-book, 2005, title=Cupid Is Stupid, author=Jr. Aaron Bryant, page=19
citation, passage=It is true. Carmen is an official gold digger. In fact, she is an instructor at the school of gold digging. Hood rats have been clocking her style for years. Wanting to pull the players she pulled, and wishing they had the looks she had.}} ** {{quote-book, 2006, Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger Vs. the Ugly American, author=Ken Bruen, page=36
citation, passage=And he waits till I extend my hand, the two fingers visibly crushed. He clocks them, I say, "Phil."}}
Synonyms
* (measure the duration of) time * (measure the speed of) * slug, smack, thump, whack * check out, scope out * turn back (the vehicle's) clock, wind back (the vehicle's) clockDerived terms
* clock in * clock on * clock off * clock out * clock upEtymology 2
Origin uncertain; designs may have originally been bell-shaped and thus related to Etymology 1, above.Noun
(en noun)citation
and you find you're as cold as an icicle,
In your shirt and your socks (the black silk with gold clocks ),
crossing Salisbury Plain on a bicycle}}
An zome stockèns o' gramfer's a-knit wi' clocks }}
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- (Jonathan Swift)