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# cooker

noun (a cooker, cookers)

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

## Everyday

1. (UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ) A large kitchen machine with an oven and hot plates or burners for cooking food; US: stove or range. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cooker/#m1)
2. Any machine for cooking (a rice cooker, a slow cooker, a pressure cooker). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cooker/#m2)
3. (informal, UK) An apple meant for cooking, not eating raw. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cooker/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life and safety: turn pan handles away from the front of the cooker; never leave a cooker on alone. In science: heat transfer in pans on a cooker. Phrases: gas cooker, electric cooker, slow cooker.

### Examples

- Mum put the soup on the cooker. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cooker/#x1)
- Don't touch the cooker; it's hot! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cooker/#x2)
- We have a gas cooker in our kitchen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cooker/#x3)
- The rice cooker beeps when the rice is ready. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cooker/#x4)
- Turn pan handles away from the edge of the cooker. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cooker/#x5)
- Bramleys are cookers, not eating apples. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cooker/#x6)

### Note

Trap: a cooker is a machine, a cook is a person. US English says stove. Safety: keep tea towels away from the hot cooker.

## On Mova

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