cook
烹饪,厨师,烹调,煮饭
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Definitions
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- : to prepare by the use of heat, as by boiling, baking, or roasting.
- : to subject to the application of heat.
- : Slang. to ruin; spoil.
- : to process for use in an executable file format.
- : Slang. to falsify, as accounts: to cook the expense figures.
- 1
- : to prepare food by the use of heat.
- : to undergo cooking.
- : Slang. to be full of activity and excitement: Las Vegas cooks around the clock.to perform, work, or do in just the right way and with energy and enthusiasm: That new drummer is really cooking tonight. Now you're cooking!to be in preparation; develop: Plans for the new factory have been cooking for several years.to take place; occur; happen: What's cooking at the club?
- 1
- : a person who cooks: The restaurant hired a new cook.
- 1
- : cook off, to explode or fire without being triggered as a result of overheating in the chamber of the weapon.
- : cook up, Informal. to concoct or contrive, often dishonestly: She hastily cooked up an excuse.to falsify: Someone had obviously cooked up the alibi.
Phrases
- cook someone's goose
- cook the books
- cook up
- cook with gas
- chief cook and bottlewasher
- short order (cook)
- too many cooks spoil the broth
- what's cooking
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Jennifer follows her passions and takes us readers and cooks to places we might not go to if she didn't lead us there.
Mirsani’s sister, Ilhama Safarova, was among the contributing cooks.
Colleagues have become very patient about me cooking while on calls with them, and my boss always politely offers to call back at a more convenient time when met with the boys chanting “go away, go away” at him.
Portland’s Lex Grant has cooked in the NBA bubble and for Oprah Winfrey.
Some people find it helpful to label things with the date they were purchased or cooked.
Cook, stirring often, for 10 minutes or until the sugar is completely dissolved and the mixture is smooth.
Continue to cook until the sauce has reduced by three quarters.
In his response, Cook spoke sensitively about the very real danger present in the general pickup community.
“It's insane to see what the extreme version of that type of helpless anger combined with mental illness can create,” Cook wrote.
An older white woman, stopped Cook to ask, in strong New York accent, “Oh no, did they let him off?”
She did not need a great cook-book; She knew how much and what it took To make things good and sweet and light.
The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.
It is to be feared that like the sauce of sauces in the hands of the inexperienced cook, the result is more than doubtful.
The voice of duty called her to the kitchen, where her cook patiently awaited her inevitable, and always painful, audience.
They stood outside the window and the cook passed them their coffee and a roll, which they drank and ate from the window-sill.