Country vs Cook - What's the difference?
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(label) An area of land; a district, region.
* 2010 , David Vann, The Observer , 7 Mar 2010:
A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, language speakers etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc.
* 2007 , Chris Moss, The Guardian , 17 Feb 2007:
The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area.
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* 1994 , (Nelson Mandela), Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 3:
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* 2000 , Alexander Chancellor, The Guardian , 4 Mar.:
Country music.
(label) The rock through which a vein runs.
From or in the countryside or connected with it.
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Of or connected to country music.
(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
As a noun country
is (label) an area of land; a district, region.As an adjective country
is from or in the countryside or connected with it.As a proper noun cook is
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English
Noun
(countries)- We walk along flat, open country , red dirt and spinifex grass, a few short trees.
- This is condor country - the only region this far east where you can see the magnificent vulture - and a small national park straddling the passes, El Condorito, is a good stopover for walkers and birders.
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- It is a beautiful country of rolling hills, fertile valleys, and a thousand rivers and streams which keep the landscape green even in winter.
- These days corporate Germany looks rather different. Volkswagen, the country ’s leading carmaker, wants to be the world’s biggest by 2018.
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- I have always thought that one of the main reasons for the popularity of blood sports in the country is the pointlessness of going outdoors with no purpose or destination in mind.
Derived terms
/* Derived terms */ * country mile * countryside * countrywide * high country * old countrySee also
*Adjective
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* 1000 English basic words ----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.