The difference between Cook and Stew

When used as nouns, cook means a person who prepares food for a living, whereas stew means a cooking-dish used for boiling.

When used as verbs, cook means to prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients, whereas stew means to cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.

check bellow for the other definitions of Cook and Stew

  1. Cook as a noun (cooking):

    A person who prepares food for a living.

  2. Cook as a noun (cooking):

    The head cook of a manor house

  3. Cook as a noun (slang):

    One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

    Examples:

    "Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab."

  4. Cook as a noun (slang):

    A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

  5. Cook as a noun:

    A fish, the European striped wrasse, .

  1. 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."

  2. 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."

  3. Cook as a verb (intransitive):

    To be being cooked.

    Examples:

    "The dinner is cooking on the stove."

  4. 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."

  5. Cook as a verb (slang):

    To execute by electric chair.

  6. 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."

  7. Cook as a verb:

    To concoct or prepare.

  8. Cook as a verb:

    To tamper with or alter; to cook up.

  9. 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!"

  10. Cook as a verb (intransitive, idiomatic, music, slang):

    To play music vigorously.

    Examples:

    "On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!"

  1. Cook as a verb (obsolete, rare, intransitive):

    To make the noise of the cuckoo.

  1. Cook as a verb (UK, dialect, obsolete):

    To throw.

  1. Stew as a noun (obsolete):

    A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.

  2. Stew as a noun (now, _, historical):

    A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath.

  3. Stew as a noun (archaic):

    A brothel.

  4. Stew as a noun (obsolete):

    A prostitute.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Sir A. Weldon"

  5. Stew as a noun (uncountable, countable):

    A dish cooked by stewing.

  6. Stew as a noun (Sussex):

    A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating; a stew pond.

  7. Stew as a noun (US, regional):

    An artificial bed of oysters.

  8. Stew as a noun (slang):

    A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.

    Examples:

    "to be in a stew'"

  1. Stew as a verb (transitive, or, intransitive, or, ergative):

    To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.

    Examples:

    "I'm going to stew some meat for the casserole."

    "The meat is stewing nicely."

  2. Stew as a verb (transitive):

    To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.

  3. Stew as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):

    To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.

  4. Stew as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):

    To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.

  1. Stew as a noun:

    A steward or stewardess on an airplane.

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