The difference between Chef and Cook

When used as nouns, chef means the presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household, whereas cook means a person who prepares food for a living.

When used as verbs, chef means to stab with a knife, to shank, to lacerate with a rambo, whereas cook means to prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.


check bellow for the other definitions of Chef and Cook

  1. Chef as a noun:

    The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household.

  2. Chef as a noun:

    The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment.

  3. Chef as a noun:

    Any cook.

  4. Chef as a noun (slang):

    One who manufactures illegal drugs; a cook.

  5. Chef as a noun (historical):

    A reliquary in the shape of a head.

  1. Chef as a verb:

    To stab with a knife, to shank, to lacerate with a rambo.

  1. Cook as a noun (cooking):

    A person who prepares food for a living.

  2. Cook as a noun (cooking):

    The head cook of a manor house

  3. Cook as a noun (slang):

    One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

    Examples:

    "Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab."

  4. Cook as a noun (slang):

    A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

  5. Cook as a noun:

    A fish, the European striped wrasse, .

  1. Cook as a verb (transitive):

    To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

    Examples:

    "I'm cooking bangers and mash."

  2. Cook as a verb (intransitive):

    To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

    Examples:

    "He's in the kitchen, cooking."

  3. Cook as a verb (intransitive):

    To be being cooked.

    Examples:

    "The dinner is cooking on the stove."

  4. Cook as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):

    To be uncomfortably hot.

    Examples:

    "Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there."

  5. Cook as a verb (slang):

    To execute by electric chair.

  6. Cook as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.

    Examples:

    "I always cook my [[frag]]s, in case they try to grab one and throw it back."

  7. Cook as a verb:

    To concoct or prepare.

  8. Cook as a verb:

    To tamper with or alter; to cook up.

  9. Cook as a verb (intransitive, jazz, slang):

    To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)

    Examples:

    "Watch this band: they cook!"

    "Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!"

  10. Cook as a verb (intransitive, idiomatic, music, slang):

    To play music vigorously.

    Examples:

    "On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!"

  1. Cook as a verb (obsolete, rare, intransitive):

    To make the noise of the cuckoo.

  1. Cook as a verb (UK, dialect, obsolete):

    To throw.