cook
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 →
2) Food cooks when it is heated until it is ready. tree →
3) A cook is a person who prepares food, at home or as a job. tree →
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 →
- Let's cook pancakes together. tree →
- Cook the chicken until it is white all the way through. tree →
- The rice takes ten minutes to cook. tree →
- My grandma is a wonderful cook. tree →
- Always cook with an adult nearby. tree →
- They cooked up a story about a ghost. tree →
- Too many cooks spoil the broth. tree →
- “Send for the cook,” says he. tree →
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.
- Rapeseed and sunflowers make seeds that are pressed into cooking oil, and the yellow rapeseed fields are busy with bees in spring.
- Scientists and cooks use words differently.
- The next witness is the Duchess's cook, carrying her pepper-box, and everyone near the door starts sneezing.
- In the confusion, the cook disappears.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «cook» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.