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
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Chef as a noun:
The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household.
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Chef as a noun:
The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment.
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Chef as a noun:
Any cook.
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Chef as a noun (slang):
One who manufactures illegal drugs; a cook.
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Chef as a noun (historical):
A reliquary in the shape of a head.
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Chef as a verb:
To stab with a knife, to shank, to lacerate with a rambo.
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Cook as a noun (cooking):
A person who prepares food for a living.
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Cook as a noun (cooking):
The head cook of a manor house
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Cook as a noun (slang):
One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
Examples:
"Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab."
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Cook as a noun (slang):
A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
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Cook as a noun:
A fish, the European striped wrasse, .
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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."
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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."
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Cook as a verb (intransitive):
To be being cooked.
Examples:
"The dinner is cooking on the stove."
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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."
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Cook as a verb (slang):
To execute by electric chair.
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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."
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Cook as a verb:
To concoct or prepare.
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Cook as a verb:
To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
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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!"
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Cook as a verb (intransitive, idiomatic, music, slang):
To play music vigorously.
Examples:
"On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!"
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Cook as a verb (obsolete, rare, intransitive):
To make the noise of the cuckoo.
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Cook as a verb (UK, dialect, obsolete):
To throw.