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# cook

verb (cook, cooks, cooked, cooking); noun (a cook, cooks)

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

## Everyday

1. To cook is to make food ready to eat by heating it: boil, fry, bake, roast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cook/#m1)
2. Food cooks when it is heated until it is ready. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cook/#m2)
3. A cook is a person who prepares food, at home or as a job. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cook/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life and science, cooking changes food (eggs go solid, bread browns); heat kills germs, so meat and eggs must be cooked through. In kitchen safety, cook only with an adult, turn pan handles in, use oven gloves, keep a lid nearby. In maths, recipes use measuring and time: «cook for 20 minutes». Phrases: «cook dinner», «cook up» (invent a story or plan), «too many cooks spoil the broth».

### Examples

- Dad cooks pasta on Fridays. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cook/#x1)
- Let's cook pancakes together. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cook/#x2)
- Cook the chicken until it is white all the way through. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cook/#x3)
- The rice takes ten minutes to cook. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cook/#x4)
- My grandma is a wonderful cook. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cook/#x5)
- Always cook with an adult nearby. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cook/#x6)
- They cooked up a story about a ghost. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cook/#x7)
- Too many cooks spoil the broth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cook/#x8)
- “Send for the cook,” says he. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cook/#x9)

### Note

A «cook» is a person; a «cooker» (UK) is the stove. Do not call the person a «cooker». Regular: cooked. «Chef» is a professional cook in a restaurant.

## In Jewish tradition

Here cooks are workers in a king's house, and in Samuel's story the one who prepares the meal. In the primary lessons: In everyday life and science, cooking changes food (eggs go solid, bread browns); heat kills germs, so meat and eggs must be cooked through. In kitchen safety, cook only with an adult, turn pan handles in, use oven gloves, keep a lid nearby. In maths, recipes use measuring and time: «cook for 20 minutes». Phrases: «cook dinner», «cook up» (invent a story or plan), «too many cooks spoil the broth».

### Examples

- And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. (Prophets 1SA.8.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cook/#x1)
- And the cook took up the thigh, and that which was upon it, and set it before Saul. (Prophets 1SA.9.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cook/#x2)
- And Samuel said unto the cook: 'Bring the portion which I gave thee, of which I said unto thee: Set it by thee.' (Prophets 1SA.9.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cook/#x3)

### Note

A «cook» is a person; a «cooker» (UK) is the stove. Do not call the person a «cooker». Regular: cooked. «Chef» is a professional cook in a restaurant.

## On Mova

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