cooked
part of speech
adjective (cooked); verb form (cook, cooks, cooked, cooking)
meaning for a pupil
1) Cooked means made ready to eat by heating, like boiled, baked or fried food. tree →
2) Cooked is the past form of cook: «She cooked dinner». tree →
sense in the lessons
In food safety lessons, meat, chicken and eggs must be cooked all the way through to kill germs; raw chicken must not touch cooked food. In science, cooking changes food in ways that cannot be undone (a cooked egg cannot become raw). In everyday life, family members take turns to cook. Phrases: cooked through, home-cooked, well cooked, undercooked, overcooked.
examples
- Mum cooked spaghetti for dinner. tree →
- Is the chicken cooked all the way through? tree →
- A cooked egg can't turn back into a raw one. tree →
- Keep raw meat away from cooked food. tree →
- We had a home-cooked meal at Grandma's. tree →
- The carrots are cooked when they are soft. tree →
- Undercooked chicken can make you ill. tree →
- Dad has cooked pancakes every Sunday this year. tree →
- And Benjamin and his sister cooked their meals for them. tree →
note
Regular verb: cook, cooked. Opposite: raw or uncooked. Undercooked = not cooked enough; overcooked = cooked too long. A cooker (UK) is the stove, not a person; the person is a cook.
In the corpora
- Rhubarb stalks are safe to eat cooked, but rhubarb leaves are poisonous because they contain a lot of oxalic acid.
- A freezer stops germs growing almost completely but does not kill most of them, so defrosted meat must still be cooked properly.
- Eggs should be cooked until the white is firm.
- Cooked bones splinter and can choke a dog or hurt its insides.
- Raw eggs, raw flour and uncooked meat can carry germs, so they are eaten only when properly cooked.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «cooked» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.