Look vs Cook - What's the difference?
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To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
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, passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady.
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, title= To appear, to seem.
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*170? , (Joseph Addison),
*:but should I publish any favours done me by your Lordship, I am afraid it would look more like vanity than gratitude.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
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*:Chelsea's youngsters, who looked lively throughout, then combined for the second goal in the seventh minute. Romeu's shot was saved by Wolves goalkeeper Dorus De Vries but Piazon kept the ball alive and turned it back for an unmarked Bertrand to blast home.
(lb) To give an appearance of being.
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To search for, to try to find.
To face or present a view.
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*Bible, (w) xi. 1
*:the east gatewhich looketh eastward
To expect or anticipate.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:looking each hour into death's mouth to fall
(lb) To express or manifest by a look.
*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
*:Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again.
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To make sure of, to see to.
*1898 , (Homer), (Samuel Butler) (translator),
*:"Look to it yourself, father," answered Telemachus, "for they say you are the wisest counsellor in the world, and that there is no other mortal man who can compare with you.
To show oneself in looking.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:My toes look through the overleather.
To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes..
To seek; to search for.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:Looking my love, I go from place to place.
To expect.
:(Shakespeare)
To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
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*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:A spirit fit to start into an empire, / And look the world to law.
(senseid)(lb) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
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The action of looking, an attempt to see.
(label) Physical appearance, visual impression.
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A facial expression.
(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 proper nouns the difference between look and cook
is that look is or look can be while cook is .look
English
Verb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c., Dedication
citation, passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
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Hyponyms
* stare * gazeDerived terms
* look about * look after * look around * look at * look away * look back * look down on * look down upon * look for * look forward * look forward to * look in on * look into * look on * look out * look out for * look over * look through * look to * look up * look up to * look upon * forelook * lookalike, look-alike * look alive * lookee * looker * lookit * look lively * lookout, look-out * look-see * look before you leap * look down one's nose * look daggers at * look here * look oneself * look sharp * look somebody in the eye * look the other way * look what the cat's brought in * mislook * onlooker * overlook * relook * underlookNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* have a look * if looks could kill * lookist * outlook * relookStatistics
*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.