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In transitive terms the difference between cook and warm

is that cook is to prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients while warm is to make or keep warm.

In intransitive terms the difference between cook and warm

is that cook is to be being cooked while warm is to favour increasingly.

As a proper noun Cook

is {{surname|from=occupations}.

As an adjective warm is

having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.

cook

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) . The verb is from (etyl) coken, from the noun.

Noun

(wikipedia cook) (en noun)
  • (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.
    • Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.
  • * Mel Bradshaw, Victim Impact
    • By late October, the pressure on the Dark Arrows' ecstasy cook had eased. Other suppliers had moved in with product.
  • * 2011 , Mackenzie Phillips, High on Arrival
    • 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.”
  • A fish, the European striped wrasse.
    • Synonyms
    * (food preparation for a living) chef
    Hyponyms
    * (food preparation for a living) cordon bleu
    Coordinate terms
    (food preparation for a living) * sous-chef * line cook * prep cook * chef (head cook of a manor house) * scullery maid * kitchen maid
    Derived terms
    * cookbook * cookery * cooking * cook the books * cook up * cookware

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
    • I'm cooking bangers and mash.
  • To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
    • He's in the kitchen, cooking .
  • To be being cooked.
    • The dinner is cooking on the stove.
  • (figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
    • Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.
  • (slang) To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
    • ''I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab one and throw it back.
  • To concoct or prepare.
  • * 2006 , Frank Spalding, Methamphetamine: The Dangers of Crystal Meth (page 47)
    • The process of cooking meth can leave residue on surfaces all over the home, exposing all of its occupants to the drug.
  • To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
  • * Addison
    • 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 off
    Hypernyms
    * (to prepare or plan something) concoct, contrive, devise, make up, plan, prepare
    Hyponyms
    * Troponyms : bake, barbecue, boil, braise, fry, grill, microwave, poach, roast, scramble, steam, stew * See also

    Etymology 2

    Imitative.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, rare) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
  • * 1599 , The Silkworms
    • Constant cuckoos cook on every side.

    Etymology 3

    Unknown.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) To throw.
  • * Grose
    • Cook me that ball.
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    warm

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , with different proposed origins:
  • (etyl) .
  • (etyl) .
    • The dispute is due to differing opinions on how initial Proto-Indo-European *g??- evolved in Germanic: some think that *g?? would have turned to *b, and that the root *g??er- would instead have given rise to burn etc. Some have also proposed a merger of the two roots. The term is cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl)/(etyl)/(etyl) (m), (etyl)/(etyl)/(etyl) (m) and (etyl)/(etyl) (m).

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.
    • The tea is still warm .
    This is a very warm room.
  • * Longfellow
    • Warm and still is the summer night.
  • * 1985 , Robert Ferro, Blue Star
    • It seemed I was too excited for sleep, too warm , too young.
  • Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.
    • We have a warm friendship .
  • Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.
  • Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal.
  • * Black
    • Here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting "warm ", as children say at blindman's buff.
  • (archaic) Ardent, zealous.
    • a warm debate, with strong words exchanged
  • * Milton
    • Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.
  • * Addison
    • They say he's a warm man and does not care to be made mouths at.
  • * Hawthorne
    • I had been none of the warmest of partisans.
  • * 1776 , Edward Gibbon, The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Chapter 1
    • To the strength and fierceness of barbarians they added a contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.
  • (archaic) Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; rich.
  • * Washington Irving
    • warm householders, every one of them
  • * Goldsmith
    • You shall have a draft upon him, payable at sight: and let me tell you he as warm a man as any within five miles round him.
    Synonyms
    * See also * See also
    Antonyms
    * (mild temperature) arctic, cold, cool, frozen * (caring) arctic, cold, cool, frozen
    Derived terms
    * * lukewarm * warmhearted/warm-hearted * warmish * warmly * warm up / warm-up
    See also
    * heated * hot * steamy * temperature * tepid

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make or keep .
  • * Bible, Isaiah xliv. 15
    • Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself.
  • * Longfellow
    • enough to warm , but not enough to burn
  • To become warm, to heat up.
    • The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.
  • To favour increasingly.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=5 citation , passage=Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.}}
  • To become ardent or animated.
    • The speaker warms as he proceeds.
  • To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings.
  • * Keble
    • Bright hopes, that erst bosom warmed .
    Derived terms
    * like death warmed over

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.
    • (Dickens)
    Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?

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