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# cooker

«cooker» in Mova's school dictionary: **A large kitchen machine with an oven and hot plates or…** — 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 (a cooker, cookers)

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cooker/#m2)

3) (informal, UK) An apple meant for cooking, not eating raw. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cooker/#m3)

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

### In the corpora

- [Hot drinks and pans pulled from the edge of tables and cookers are a common cause of serious burns in small children.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking/21/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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