The difference between Cook and Prepare
When used as nouns, cook means a person who prepares food for a living, whereas prepare means preparation.
When used as verbs, cook means to prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients, whereas prepare means to make ready for a specific future purpose.
check bellow for the other definitions of Cook and Prepare
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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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Prepare as a verb (transitive):
To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble.
Examples:
"We prepared the spacecraft for takeoff."
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Prepare as a verb (transitive):
To make ready for eating or drinking; to cook.
Examples:
"We prepared a fish for dinner."
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Prepare as a verb (intransitive):
To make oneself ready; to get ready, make preparation.
Examples:
"We prepared for a bumpy ride."
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Prepare as a verb (transitive):
To produce or make by combining elements; to synthesize, compound.
Examples:
"She prepared a meal from what was left in the cupboards."
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Prepare as a noun (obsolete):
preparation