School vs Cook - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between school and cook

is that school is to control, or compose, one's expression while cook is to prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

As nouns the difference between school and cook

is that school is a group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales while cook is a person who prepares food for a living.

As verbs the difference between school and cook

is that school is to form into, or travel in a school 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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school

English

(wikipedia school)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . More at .

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.

The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.

A multitude.

Synonyms

* (fish) shoal

Verb

(en verb)

(of fish) To form into, or travel in a school.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) scole, from (etyl) . Influenced in some senses by (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

(US, Canada) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.

(British) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran

, volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools'
Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.

(considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=3 citation , passage=Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school , were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.}}

* Jeremy Taylor

Let no man be less confident in his faith by reason of any difference in the several schools of Christians.

The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.

The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.

The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.

He was a gentleman of the old school .

* A. S. Hardy

His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools .

Synonyms

* (institution dedicated to teaching and learning) academy, college, university * (organizational unity within an educational institution) college, department, further education college, institute * (group of fish) shoal

Hyponyms

* See also

Derived terms

* boarding school * comprehensive school * cram school * elementary school * grade school * grammar school * high school * infant school * junior high school * junior school * magnet school * middle school * nursery school * old school * prep school * primary school * private school * public school * school age * schoolbag * school band * schoolbook * schoolboy * schoolchild * school day * schoolfellow * schoolfriend * schoolgirl * school holidays * schoolma'am * schoolmaster * schoolmistress * school night * school’s out * schoolteacher * schoolwork * secondary modern school * secondary school * state school * Sunday school * tell tales out of school * upper school

Verb

(en verb)
To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school.)

Many future prime ministers were schooled in Eton.

To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.

* 1998 , Leigh Jones, "National bar exam methods win in ADA regulation test," , April 13,

A blind law graduate who put the National Conference of Bar Examiners to the test got schooled in federal court.

* {{quote-book, 2006, Steve Smith, Forever Red: Confessions Of A Cornhusker Football Fan, page=67
, passage=Two weeks later, the Cornhuskers put on their road whites again and promptly got schooled by miserable Iowa State in Ames. After the shocking loss
* 2007 , Peter David and Alvin Sargent, Spider-Man 3 , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 1416527214, pg. 216,

"You again?" Sandman demanded. "I guess you didn't learn your lesson."

"This time I'm gonna school you."

To control, or compose, one's expression.

She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.

Derived terms

* (l)

Statistics

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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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