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# chef

«chef» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person whose job is to cook, often the main cook in a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (chef, chefs)

### meaning for a pupil

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

2) A head chef leads the other cooks in a kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chef/#m2)

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

### In the corpora

- [Not all do: roof, roofs; chef, chefs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/6-spelling-plurals/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chef» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chef/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.