What's the difference between cook and crook?

Cook


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
  • (v. t.) To throw.
  • (n.) One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.
  • (n.) A fish, the European striped wrasse.
  • (v. t.) To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.
  • (v. t.) To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.
  • (v. i.) To prepare food for the table.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
  • (2) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
  • (3) At temperatures greater than 150 degrees C the mutagenic activity of the cooked meat increased to reach a maximum at 300 degrees C. In another series of experiments, lamb patties were cooked at 250 degrees C for 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 min.
  • (4) The relation between respiratory illness and the use of gas for cooking was examined from data on 1565 infants born to mothers who were primigravidas living in Dundee in 1980.
  • (5) She followed that with a job at Bibendum – she still talks of Simon Hopkinson, "such an elegant cook, so particular and clean and efficient", with deep reverence – and another at Roscoff in Northern Ireland.
  • (6) He reportedly almost never went out, spending America's 4th of July holiday at home, and cooking steak dinners for one.
  • (7) Illness was also significantly associated with eating lightly cooked eggs (unmatched p = 0.02), but not soft boiled eggs, and precooked hot chicken (matched p = 0.006).
  • (8) For the extreme stenosis (2 and 3 mm) of the lumen the dilatation was first performed by the Grüntzig Catheter and after extension above 5 mm special oesophageal catheters with a balloon of 15 mm diameter (Cook) were used.
  • (9) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.
  • (10) It claims that reports of civilians being killed by security forces are fabrications cooked up by activists and the international media, while the official news agency talks constantly about "armed criminal groups" trying to destabilise the country.
  • (11) She wanted to cook the kind of food she had eaten and prepared while living in Italy – grilled meats, bread soups, pasta.
  • (12) Asked whether the US tax code was convoluted and difficult to understand partly because of lobbying by companies including Apple for exemptions, Cook replied: "No doubt."
  • (13) Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, warned Barack Obama in public remarks this month that history had shown “sacrificing our right to privacy can have dire consequences”.
  • (14) Compared to our subjects, Coombs found spouses were either housewives or held lower level jobs rather than demanding careers, and consequently our subjects experienced greater difficulty meeting demands of everyday life (cooking, cleaning, child care).
  • (15) In another experiment the effect of cooking-extrusion on lupine flour (L. albus) was investigated and the chemical composition, protein efficiency ratio, methionine supplementation and digestibility of the protein were measured.
  • (16) In multiple logistic models, accounting for independent effects of age, smoking, pack-years, parents' smoking, socio-economic status, body mass index, significantly increased odds ratios were found in males for the associations of: bottled gas for cooking with cough (1.66) and dyspnoea (1.81); stove for heating with cough (1.44) and phlegm (1.39); stove fuelled by natural gas and fan or stove fuelled other than by natural gas with cough (1.54 and 1.66).
  • (17) The sera were used to type 137 isolates of B. cereus from 34 British and Australian incidents of food poisoning associated with the consumption of cooked rice.
  • (18) Cook was quizzed about the price of the 4S, which was more expensive than the 5C in some markets.
  • (19) At the conclusion of 817 abdominal operations, duplicate swabs were taken from the subcutaneous tissues for microbiological examination; one swab was transported to the laboratory in Stuart's thioglycollate medium and the other immediately incubated in Robertson's cooked meat broth.
  • (20) "There is definitely the possibility of a Sky equivalent [for women]," Cooke said.

Crook


Definition:

  • (n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
  • (n.) Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
  • (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
  • (n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
  • (n.) A pothook.
  • (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
  • (n.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
  • (n.) A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
  • (n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
  • (n.) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
  • (v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A patient presented at the Department of Orthodontics, Medunsa Dental Hospital, complaining of "crooked teeth".
  • (2) And, I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump doubles down on his Isis comments, saying that Hillary Clinton is the group’s MVP On Thursday, Clinton attacked Trump for the remarks on Twitter.
  • (3) Subjects were examined for somatic symptoms in accordance with Crooks' index of hyperthyroidism.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook in Detectorists.
  • (5) I have these words for the authorities: [it is a] creepy, crooked, evil way."
  • (6) Reinforced polyethylene or polyurethane catheters in the shape of a "Shepherd Crook" have led to improve selective and superselective catheterization of visceral arteries.
  • (7) The restenosis rate was 18% in the shepherd's crook group and 21% in the control group; repeat PTCA (14% v 15%) and bypass surgery (2% v 6%) rates were also similar in both groups.
  • (8) Julia Donaldson will be showcasing her latest book The Flying Bath as part of the children's programme, as the actor Mackenzie Crook launches his new title The Lost Journals of Benjamin Tooth, Frank Cottrell Boyce returns to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Rosen celebrates 25 years of We're Going on a Bear Hunt.
  • (9) He is less concerned with the legal debate than he is with the fact that western firms are being fleeced by shadowy cyber-crooks half a world away.
  • (10) The spear-phishing tricks we saw the Chinese secret police using against the Dalai Lama in 2008 were being used by Russian crooks to steal money from US companies by 2010.
  • (11) Some of them may feel favourable towards what they're doing, but many of them are able to hear their inner Jiminy Cricket over the voices of their leaders and crooked politicians – and of the people whose intimate communication they're tapping.
  • (12) For analysis of the cytokeratin (CK) of Crooke's cells, 28 post-mortem pituitary glands with unequivocal Crooke's hyaline change were investigated immunohistochemically using monoclonal antibodies for CK subfamilies.
  • (13) We drove north from Salima, past Nkhotakota, looking out for the crooked painted sign, but it had disappeared.
  • (14) Various locations, Chicago, opens 3 October New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919–1933 It’s 1920: the German Empire has crumbled, and Berlin is a city of cripples and crooks, communists and cabaret stars.
  • (15) Clinical assessment (using the Crooks-Wayne index) was combined with the measurement of free thyroxine and triiodothyronine indices (FT4I and FT3I) and the assessment of two tissue markers of thyroid hormone action--sex-hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) levels and the thyrotrophin responses to TRH.
  • (16) The zones were perpendicular to the long axes of the crooked floccular folia, forming the crooked zones.
  • (17) 'During the war, my grandparents were often uprooted - they moved in and out of London, and even came over here to America - but their Steinway always went with them and had to be squeezed up crooked staircases wherever they lodged.
  • (18) • The trip was provided by Crooked Trails (+1 206 383 9828, crookedtrails.org ), which works to help indigenous and rural communities worldwide benefit from tourism.
  • (19) about some property crook he'd first exposed in 1969 but who wasn't finally convicted until five or six years ago.
  • (20) Meanwhile in September 2014 we told how Barclays “has been accused by victims of fraud of loose security procedures which have enabled international crooks to open accounts with foreign passports and then use them to fleece individuals online”.Victims who have contacted Money this week include: • A judge and his wife living in the north of England who have lost £5,040.