What is the difference between microwave and cook?
microwave | cook | Hyponyms |
An electromagnetic wave with wavelength between that of infrared light and radio waves.
A microwave oven.
To cook (something) in a microwave oven.
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(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
Cook is a hyponym of microwave.
In transitive terms the difference between microwave and cook
is that microwave is to cook (something) in a microwave oven while cook is to prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.As a proper noun Cook is
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English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* convection microwave * microwave-proof * microwave-safeSee also
* longwave, mediumwave, shortwave, radio wave * radio frequency, UHF, SHF * radio band, K band, Ka band, Ku band, X bandVerb
- A vengeful mother-of-three has been jailed for 168 days after being convicted of killing a neighbour's kitten by microwaving the 10-week-old pet.
Synonyms
* (cook in a microwave oven) nuke (colloquial)Derived terms
* microwavable, microwaveable * microwave-proof * microwave-safeSee also
* *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.
