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# cook

«cook» in Mova's school dictionary: **to make food ready to eat by heating it: boil, fry, bake…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) To cook is to make food ready to eat by heating it: boil, fry, bake, roast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cook/#m1)

2) Food cooks when it is heated until it is ready. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cook/#m3)

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

- [Rhubarb stalks are safe to eat cooked, but rhubarb leaves are poisonous because they contain a lot of oxalic acid.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/255-plants-deeper-poisonous-and-stinging-plants-and-staying-safe/14/)
- [Rapeseed and sunflowers make seeds that are pressed into cooking oil, and the yellow rapeseed fields are busy with bees in spring.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/16/)
- [Scientists and cooks use words differently.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds/2/)
- [The next witness is the Duchess's cook, carrying her pepper-box, and everyone near the door starts sneezing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/9/)
- [In the confusion, the cook disappears.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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