The difference between Cook and Cordon bleu
When used as nouns, cook means a person who prepares food for a living, whereas cordon bleu means a skillful chef.
Cook is also verb with the meaning: to prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
check bellow for the other definitions of Cook and Cordon bleu
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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.
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Cordon bleu as a noun:
A skillful chef.
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Cordon bleu as a noun:
An award given to such chefs.
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Cordon bleu as a noun:
Thin slices of veal, ham and cheese breaded and sautéed; somewhat like a wiener schnitzel, or Viennese cutlet.
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Cordon bleu as a noun: