What's the difference between cook and rook?

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.

Rook


Definition:

  • (n.) Mist; fog. See Roke.
  • (v. i.) To squat; to ruck.
  • (n.) One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.
  • (n.) A European bird (Corvus frugilegus) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections. The base of the beak and the region around it are covered with a rough, scabrous skin, which in old birds is whitish. It is gregarious in its habits. The name is also applied to related Asiatic species.
  • (n.) A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.
  • (v. t. & i.) To cheat; to defraud by cheating.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Veronica investigated her classmates, and that still matters In Mars vs Mars, the 14th episode of season one, Veronica’s classmate Carrie (Leighton Meister) claims she slept with their teacher, Mr Rooks (Adam Scott).
  • (2) Rooke said dredging was part of the solution, "but not the whole solution".
  • (3) In their 125th year, the Rooks fended off bankruptcy to become Lewes Community Football Club, thus joining AFC Wimbledon, FC United of Manchester and Exeter City, among others, as collective entities.
  • (4) · Denis Eric Rooke, industrialist, born April 2 1924; died September 2 2008
  • (5) David Rooke, director of flood and coastal risk management at the agency, said residents should be "braced for some of the most serious coastal flooding we have probably seen for at least 30 years and in some cases for over 60 years".
  • (6) Across eight cask pumps, seven keg lines and three hand-pulled ciders, the Rook runs the gamut from exotic European imports (Opat's self-explanatory orange and mandarin Czech pils) to beers from lesser-spotted UK micros, such as Grafters and Jurassic Brewhouse.
  • (7) Coagulase-positive staphylococci were found in the throats of 46 rooks (69 per cent) and 47 gulls (21 per cent) out of totals of 67 and 229 birds, respectively.
  • (8) Rooke added: "We are talking about today [Thursday] and tomorrow.
  • (9) It was a phase in Rooke's experience that he never forgot, though never exulted in nor even willingly discussed.
  • (10) In a free living rook (Corvus frugilegus) a well differentiated squamous cell carcinoma without keratinization arising from the oesophageal mucosa was found.
  • (11) Take the well-known example of Rookes v Barnard , decided by the law lords in 1964.
  • (12) As the rook moves on the chess board, it reaches all 64 squares in the ordering of the codon numbers, which prescribe the codons by a simple formula based on the position and size of the nucleotides in a triplet.
  • (13) Bacteria of the genus Campylobacter were isolated from 28 Rooks (Corvus frugilegus), 1 Red Kite (Milvus milvus), 1 Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), 1 Coot (Fulica atra), 1 Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) and 1 Northern Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos).
  • (14) Rooke had already been in charge of trial runs across the Atlantic - once in a 23-day battle against continous gales because they had to avoid normal shipping lanes, especially in bad weather.
  • (15) Now, it is said, it may be hard to find new senior executives at the corporation's successor, Centrica , because Rooke's equivalent, Sam Laidlaw, earned just £2.2m last year (after a £5.7m payout 12 months earlier).
  • (16) and 21 Rxe6!, a temporary rook offer which gave White a raging attack.
  • (17) Brought up on the slopes of the Quantocks and Exmoor, hence, perhaps, his love of game, fishing and the odd rook for the pot (his father was a keen field sportsman), he was educated at Wellington school, in Somerset, where a fellow pupil was Jeffrey Archer.
  • (18) Case study: 'We want to bring him up in a household with working parents' Once the rent, council tax and utility bills have been paid, Kristie Locke, 20, and her partner, David Rooks, 25, are left with £7.70 a day to buy food, clothes and other essentials for themselves and their eight-month-old baby, Leyton.
  • (19) As Rooke remarked to an interviewer 10 years later, "There isn't any doubt, it was a hell of a battle.
  • (20) In rooks the residues of chlorinated pesticides and PCB were dependent on the land use of the regions compared (e.g., industrial, agricultural), but no such correlation was found for the HCB residues.