The difference between Cook and Plan
When used as nouns, cook means a person who prepares food for a living, whereas plan means a drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.
When used as verbs, cook means to prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients, whereas plan means to design (a building, machine, etc.).
check bellow for the other definitions of Cook and Plan
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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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Plan as a noun:
A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.
Examples:
"The plans for many important buildings were once publicly available."
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Plan as a noun:
A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
Examples:
"He didn't really have a plan; he had a goal and a habit of control."
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Plan as a noun:
A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation.
Examples:
"Seen in plan, the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors."
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Plan as a noun:
A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
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Plan as a noun:
A subscription to a service.
Examples:
"a phone plan'"
"an Internet plan'"
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Plan as a verb (transitive):
To design (a building, machine, etc.).
Examples:
"The architect planned the building for the client."
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Plan as a verb (transitive):
To create a plan for.
Examples:
"They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month."
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Plan as a verb (intransitive):
To intend.
Examples:
"He planned to go, but work intervened."
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Plan as a verb:
See plan on.
Examples:
"I was planning on going, but something came up."
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Plan as a verb (intransitive):
To make a plan.
Examples:
"They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies."