(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.
Plantain
Definition:
(n.) A treelike perennial herb (Musa paradisiaca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa.
(n.) The fruit of this plant. It is long and somewhat cylindrical, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy, and covered with a thick but tender yellowish skin. The plantain is a staple article of food in most tropical countries, especially when cooked.
(n.) Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P. major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of the present study tend to confirm that plantain banana powder strengthens mucosal resistance and promotes the healing of ulcers.
(2) 35% by three pollens responsible for the so-called spring pollinosis, and 50% by weeds (plantain, nettle, mugwort) the cause of late summer pollinosis.
(3) At Melao Bakery, a classic Puerto Rican restaurant that serves quesitos, cream-filled doughnuts and a popular dish of fried green plantain called mofongo, several of the customers were also still wavering between the candidates.
(4) The third example concerns the use of laxatives of plant origin such as plantain seeds and the drugs Agiocur and Agiolax.
(5) 28% were skin test positive to plantain pollen extract.
(6) Of the 985 children examined, 38 per cent claimed to use a toothbrush, 31 per cent chewing sticks, 17 per cent plantain and 14 per cent the chewing sponge.
(7) An official preparation of plantain sap was shown to ward off this effect and to contribute to the normalising of certain parameters of epithelial cells.
(8) Plantain pollen sensitivity should therefore be considered during diagnosis of seasonal allergy.
(9) In each area, 95-97% of all atopic children were sensitized to one of the following seven allergens: house dust, Dermatophagoides farinae, D. pteronyssinus, cat dander, plantain, rye grass, and Alternaria tenuis.
(10) These included timothy, meadow, false oat, rye, giant and short ragweed, plantain, silver birch and ash.
(11) Weeds elicit two levels of allergenicity, a high level by the Ragweeds and other members of the Asteraceae, and a much lower level by members of the families Amaranthaceae (Pigweed, Western Water Hemp), Chenopodiaceae (Lamb's Quarters, Kochia, and Russian Thistle), and Plantaginaceae (Plantain) in the St. Louis, Missouri area.
(12) Dendrograms based on oligonucleotide fingerprint band sharing data proved to be consistent with most of the known features of the history of banana and plantain cultivation and evolution, respectively.
(13) Hippophae, Rosa and plantain oils have been shown to produce and essential therapeutic action on chemical burns of rabbit eye.
(14) As the family eventually gather, tables are scraped together and a medley of English breakfasts and St Lucian salt fish and plantains piled on to plates.
(15) The resulting data confirm an abundance of ragweed and nettle emanations but suggest that those of plantains, chenopods, and amaranths achieve modest levels, at best, despite their prominence in gravity slide recoveries.
(16) Evidence is cited to show the essential adequacy of protein in root crops, except plantain and cassava and for all humans except perhaps some infants.
(17) Other plants used are osha, chuchupate-lovage; ponso or tanse-tansy; poleo-spearmint or pennyroyal mint; amolillo-wild licorice; dormilon-tall cone flower; malva; and, lanten-plantain.
(18) A young man sells plantain chips in traffic jam at Marina Lagos.
(19) Characterisation by SDS-PAGE immunoblotting of plantain pollen extract showed that components of 16,000-20,000 M(r) were frequently reactive with IgE antibody in the sera of subjects with seasonal respiratory allergy.
(20) The results show that sorrel (Rumex) and plantain (Plantago) also belong to the most important pollens and should therefore be included in the test spectrum for allergological examinations.