The difference between Cook and Make up
When used as verbs, cook means to prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients, whereas make up means to constitute.
Cook is also noun with the meaning: a person who prepares food for a living.
check bellow for the other definitions of Cook and Make up
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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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Make up as a verb (transitive):
To constitute; to compose; to form.
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Make up as a verb (transitive):
To compensate, fill in or catch up.
Examples:
"He can make up the time next week."
"I plan to make up for my failed midterm."
"Cuba took limited free market-oriented measures to alleviate severe shortages of food, consumer goods, and services to make up for the ending of Soviet subsidies."
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Make up as a verb (transitive):
To invent, imagine, or concoct (a story, claim, etc.).
Examples:
"He was a great storyteller and could make up a story on the spot."
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Make up as a verb (transitive, cooking):
To assemble, or mix.
Examples:
"I can make up a batch of stew in a few minutes, but it will take a few hours to cook."
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Make up as a verb (transitive):
To apply cosmetics or makeup to.
Examples:
"Let's leave as soon as I make up my face."
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Make up as a verb (intransitive):
To resolve, forgive or smooth over an argument or fight.
Examples:
"They fight a lot, but they always manage to make up."
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Make up as a verb:
To overcome a disadvantage.
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Make up as a verb:
To make social or romantic advances ; to pay court (to).
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Make up as a verb:
genetic material, the genetic 'makeup' of a thing, in a living creature.