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 →

2) A head chef leads the other cooks in a kitchen. tree →

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 →
• Each chef cooks 12 meals. tree →
• The restaurant has 4 chefs. tree →
• The chef used 5 eggs in each cake. tree →
• The chef wears a tall white hat. tree →
• My uncle is a chef in a hotel. tree →
• The head chef tasted the soup. tree →
• She wants to be a chef when she grows up. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «chef» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.