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Cooked vs Mature - What's the difference?

cooked | mature |

As an adjective cooked

is of food, that has been prepared by cooking.

As a verb cooked

is (cook).

As a noun mature is

masts (of a ship).

cooked

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of food, that has been prepared by cooking.
  • Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.
  • (idiomatic) (of accounting records, intelligence) partially or wholly fabricated, falsified
  • Antonyms

    * raw * uncooked

    Derived terms

    * cooked mode

    See also

    * cook the books

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cook)
  • mature

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
  • She is quite mature for her age.
  • Profound; careful.
  • The headmaster decided to expel the boy after a mature consideration.
  • (obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
  • Antonyms

    * (grown up) childish, immature * (profound) superficial

    Verb

  • To become mature; to ripen.
  • To gain experience or wisdom with age.
  • (finance) To reach the date when payment is due
  • Derived terms

    * mature up