What's the difference between chef and toque?

Chef


Definition:

  • (n.) A chief of head person.
  • (n.) The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family, etc.
  • (n.) Same as Chief.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
  • (2) "With the full backing of British Gymnastics, the trainers who helped take Smith and Tweddle to Olympic glory are ready to turn the nation's pop stars, actors, newsreaders and chefs into heroes of the high bars and titans of the tumble track," it added.
  • (3) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
  • (4) In 2011, Michelle Obama visited and it’s always very busy with lots of artists, businessmen and chefs.
  • (5) The chef and anti-obesity campaigner Jamie Oliver welcomed the report as "the clearest warning sign yet that the medical profession is deeply concerned about obesity.
  • (6) PA also spoke to Austin Yuill, whoa chef at the art school, who said he believed the blaze started when a spark ignited foam in the building's basement.
  • (7) My mum thought it was a bad idea, because the chefs were nuts, always drunk.
  • (8) Chefs Jorge and Beto offer classes in making traditional family recipes, combined with a market tour for groups of up to six, from £65pp for four hours.
  • (9) It's hard to imagine Paltrow teaming up with any other chef.
  • (10) In Bill Buford's book Heat, the account of his adventures learning to become a restaurant cook in one of Batali's kitchen's, Buford describes the chef's instinct for excess.
  • (11) Every Friday night, I pass his Little Chef in Popham, Kent, and many a night we stop there, eating our way through perfect scampi and chips, spag bol of the highest order, the bill rarely sliding north of £18 for two, with drinks .
  • (12) The design and construction of a transistor-driven hexagonal contour-clamped homogeneous electric field (CHEF) apparatus is discussed in detail.
  • (13) Last week, acclaimed Basque chefs Juan Mari Arzak and his daughter Elena, owners the famous Arzak restaurant in San Sebastián, opened Ametsa , their long awaited London outpost.
  • (14) At least 13 chromosomes were identified in 187BB using contour-clamped homogeneous electric field (CHEF) gel electrophoresis.
  • (15) Radiation-induced DNA double-strand breaks (dsb) were determined by CHEF electrophoresis.
  • (16) Cookery programmes bloat the television schedules, cookbooks strain the bookshop tables, celebrity chefs hawk their own brands of weird mince pies ( Heston Blumenthal ) or bronze-moulded pasta ( Jamie Oliver ) in the supermarkets, and cooks in super-expensive restaurants from Chicago to Copenhagen are the subject of hagiographic profiles in serious magazines and newspapers.
  • (17) Three years ago it was impossible to get a Spanish chef or restaurant manager.
  • (18) The initial (up to 30 min) rate of DNA double-strand break (dsb) rejoining was measured in irradiated plateau-phase CHO cells, in a set of parallel experiments using the same cell suspension, by means of non-unwinding filter elution, neutral sucrose gradient centrifugation, and two pulsed-field gel electrophoresis assays: asymmetric field inversion gel electrophoresis (AFIGE) and clamped homogeneous electric field (CHEF) gel electrophoresis.
  • (19) Field inversion gel electrophoresis (FIGE) and contour-clamped homogeneous field (CHEF) electrophoresis were used to analyse the chromosome of Yersinia ruckeri.
  • (20) Montague tried to sell a story about a celebrity chef to the Sunday Mirror rather than the News of the World, according to the claim.

Toque


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of cap worn in the 16th century, and copied in modern fashions; -- called also toquet.
  • (n.) A variety of the bonnet monkey.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Praia do Toque, Alagoas Ricardo Freire, author of 100 Praias Que Valem a Viagem (100 Beaches You Must Visit) São Miguel dos Milagres fringes 15km of beaches protected both by reefs and the lack of a highway – the main coastal road turns inland, and only those in the know take the local road that leads to a forest of coconut trees and scattered villages.
  • (2) Severin's uniform is "a Krakovian costume in [Wanda's] colours, light blue with red piping and a red toque decorated with peacock feathers … the silver buttons bear her coat of arms."
  • (3) We may never reach the dizzy levels of addiction to this herb shown by the late, great American gourmand James Beard, who wrote, "I believe if ever I had to practise cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon to go around", but I hope I've convinced you that tarragon is just as good for a little culinary rough and tumble as it is for the rarefied world of starched white linen and towering toques.
  • (4) Gordon Ramsay has also thrown his toque in the ring, confirming he plans to launch his own app in the summer.
  • (5) Plasmodium fragile infection of the toque monkey is a natural host-parasite association in which parasite sequestration occurs as during P. falciparum infection of humans.
  • (6) We demonstrate that in a simian malaria parasite (Plasmodium cynomolgi in its natural host, the toque monkey), the loss of infectivity during crisis is due to the death of circulating intraerythrocytic gametocytes mediated by crisis serum.
  • (7) Set up base at Praia do Toque and walk the sands nearby.
  • (8) The infectivity of Plasmodium cynomolgi in its natural host, the toque monkey, Macaca sinica, to Anopheles tessellatus mosquitoes was studied in relation to the evolution of anti-sexual-stage immunity in the host during the course of a blood-induced infection.
  • (9) Animals seropositive for HTLV were found only among macaques originating from various localities, toque monkeys in Sri Lanka (17.5%), crab-eating macaques in Thailand (1.3%), stumptailed macaques in Thailand (1.5%), rhesus monkeys in Thailand (3.3%), and Celebes macaques in Indonesia (16.9%).
  • (10) • Where to stay: Pousada do Toque , the region's pioneers.
  • (11) The course of infection of Plasmodium fragile in its natural host, the toque monkey Macaca sinica, consists of a primary peak of parasitemia followed by several distinct, successive peaks of lower parasitemia.

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