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# chef

noun (chef, chefs)

«chef» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A chef is a person whose job is to cook, often the main cook in a restaurant or hotel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chef/#m1)
2. A head chef leads the other cooks in a kitchen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chef/#m2)

### In the lessons

maths: a worker who makes food counted in batches; rates per hour (total = chefs × rate × time), ingredients per dish; everyday life: restaurants, cooking shows, school cooks; safety: chefs wear aprons and wash their hands, knives and hot pans; stories: a chef who invents a new dish

### Examples

- The chef makes 30 pizzas an hour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chef/#x1)
- Each chef cooks 12 meals. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chef/#x2)
- The restaurant has 4 chefs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chef/#x3)
- The chef used 5 eggs in each cake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chef/#x4)
- The chef wears a tall white hat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chef/#x5)
- My uncle is a chef in a hotel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chef/#x6)
- The head chef tasted the soup. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chef/#x7)
- She wants to be a chef when she grows up. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chef/#x8)

### Note

A worker with a rate: total = chefs × rate × time. Trap: none special. Say «shef»; the ch sounds like sh. A chef is a cook, but not every cook is a chef.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «chef» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chef/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«chef» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/chef.html) on Mova free.