(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.
Grill
Definition:
(v. t.) A gridiron.
(v. t.) That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc.
(n.) To broil on a grill or gridiron.
(n.) To torment, as if by broiling.
Example Sentences:
(1) These tacos, the legacy of the city's many Lebanese immigrants, a variation of shawarma , the grilled marinated meat dish popular throughout the Middle East.
(2) With the election only a week away, the three grillings were seen as critical to the outcome of the closest election for a generation.
(3) She wanted to cook the kind of food she had eaten and prepared while living in Italy – grilled meats, bread soups, pasta.
(4) Grilled Grill herring with a little oil and salt and the skin will blacken and crisp to reveal a creamy delicious flesh inside.
(5) As the embattled NHS chief executive was grilled in the televised hearing, committee member Valerie Vaz told him: "Please don't feel that this is a trial."
(6) The debut of the film – before an audience of business journalists, film critics and a smattering of Wonga customers – comes before a grilling by MPs in Westminster on Tuesday as calls grow for tighter curbs on payday lenders.
(7) Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt was grilled for six hours at the Leveson inquiry and his evidence touched on phone-hacking, his meetings with the Murdochs, the role of his former special adviser Adam Smith and whether he really did hide behind a tree.
(8) Davis had earlier declined the privilege of specifying his final supper, so instead was given the institution's choice of grilled cheeseburgers, oven browned potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, cookies and a grape beverage.
(9) However, it’s the views of the Cascade mountains from Portland City Grill on the 30th floor that really grab the attention.
(10) There's nothing worse than a semi-raw grilled tomato, so make sure they're cooked properly all the way through and a bit caramelised on top.
(11) BP credit rating downgraded after Tony Hayward's grilling by Congress 19 June One of BP's partners, Anadarko Petroleum, refuses to accept any responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon explosion despite owning a quarter of the well.
(12) P51 The Independent Farage to be grilled by tipsy Gogglebox couple.
(13) 400g cooked or tinned butterbeans 1 tsp ground cumin 10ml lemon juice ¼ clove garlic, peeled and finely minced 1 small handful picked flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped 1 tbsp plain flour (gluten-free flour also works fine) 1 tsp salt 1 egg 1 spring onion, trimmed and finely sliced 50g breadcrumbs 100g feta (or other crumbly goat's or sheep's cheese) Put the butterbeans, cumin, lemon juice, garlic, parsley, flour, salt and egg in a food processor and blitz to a coarse paste: you don't want the mix fully pureed, otherwise the burgers will be too wet and will fall apart on the grill.
(14) After hours of grilling in senate estimates, assistant health minister Fiona Nash insists there was no conflict of interest or breach of standards in her office because her former chief of staff, Alister Furnival, did not act like a man who had a conflict of interest, did everything required of him to avoid conflicts, and he can’t help it if his accountant forgot to tidy up his paperwork.
(15) "It would have looked very bad if these battles were going on while Vella was being grilled by MEPs," said Micklewright.
(16) • £585, +30 22710 32217, perleas.gr Greek island holiday guide: Crete Read more Where to eat Fabrika In an old olive press in the market town of Volissos, this taverna specialises in grilled meat (done properly over charcoal).
(17) The Ukip leader said he was making immigration the central plank of his campaign and wants the the chance to grill David Cameron on the issue at the leaders’ television debates later this week.
(18) Grilled cuttlefish on a bed of chestnut purée comes dramatically drizzled with black squid ink and shredded fried leek, while the innocuous-sounding champi con foie conceals mushroom, foie gras, creamy alioli (garlic mayonnaise) and a slick of salsa verde.
(19) The neutral fractions of yakitori grilled for 3, 5, and 7 min contained 3.8, 19, and 43 ng, respectively, of 1-nitropyrene per gram of yakitori, accounting for 3.0, 2.7, and 1.3%, respectively, of the total extract mutagenicity.
(20) And here's our full story: Service sector growing at fastest pace since 1997 10.29am GMT MPs grill Wonga: Payday lenders admit making changes Wonga has also admitted it was forced to make changes to its sales practices following an Office of Fair Trading investigation,as the hearing before MPs continued...