What's the difference between cooking and skewer?

Cooking


Definition:

  • (p. pr & vb. n.) of Cook

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.

Skewer


Definition:

  • (n.) A pin of wood or metal for fastening meat to a spit, or for keeping it in form while roasting.
  • (v. t.) To fasten with skewers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Because he had said so many damning things out in the open, it hardly seemed necessary to skewer his personal life.
  • (2) The secondary devices include cerclage, hemicerclage, or interfragmentary wires, skewer-pins, screws, and external skeletal fixators.
  • (3) • Savage is every Friday and Saturday at Metropolis Studios, London, from 4 March (tickets £5), savagedisco.com The Mighty Hoop-la Facebook Twitter Pinterest Skewering the type of weekender you’d usually associate with Butlins (Redcoats, awkward cabaret, warring families), The Mighty Hoop-la has gathered many of the best alternative club nights – including those on this list, except Torture Garden, Hip Hop Karaoke and Savage – and performance troupes for a festival dedicated to high camp, high energy and high-concept fun.
  • (4) The size and appearance of the wound corresponded to those of the horizontal section of a skewer used by the assailant.
  • (5) Enjoy tapas – grilled artichoke, skewers of chicken, grilled prawns, cheese or salty hot pork on warm bread – while standing at the marble bar, or raciones at a table round the back.
  • (6) Spoon into the prepared tin, smooth the top and bake for 25 minutes (or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean).
  • (7) Such a fatal case due to a single stabbing of the medullar oblongata by the chance gliding of a skewer through the small, narrow atlantoaxial interspace is considered to be exceptional.
  • (8) During one technical challenge, I saw one baker use, at the very least, six glass bowls, a saucepan, a sieve, a spatula, a silicon sheet, spoons, a pastry brush, a skewer, a cake tin, palette knives, piping bags, a measuring jug, scissors, a rolling pin, spoons and a cooling rack.
  • (9) The sharp-witted late-night TV star, who regularly skewers the foibles of other celebrities, found himself on the end of the same treatment after being at the centre of a bizarre blackmail plot over the sexual affairs he had with younger female staff members.
  • (10) In the 1980s, the debt timebomb was due to Opec's petrodollars being recycled through western banks to poor people in the developing world, who were skewered when inflation and interest rates took off.
  • (11) Stewart plays a fake anchor, tirelessly skewering the absurdities of US politics while Oliver plays his fake Senior British Correspondent, a walking compendium of British cliches.
  • (12) The list of films from the last couple years is long and includes The International , where the enemy is a bank, to comedies such as The Other Guys and Despicable Me where offhand jokes skewer banks and bankers even in children's films.
  • (13) Langham said Armando Iannucci, who created The Thick of It, the painfully black, expletive-heavy, government-skewering comedy, describes prime minister Hugh Abbot - the character played by Langham - as someone who is in the process of selling his soul to the devil, but the transaction is not yet quite complete.
  • (14) That was the message from the Institute for Fiscal Studies as it skewered George Osborne over the spending plans laid out in the autumn statement.
  • (15) The first came with the founding of Gawker in 2002 as a gossip blog that skewered celebrities and New York media figures.
  • (16) Check with a skewer: if it comes out clean, it's done.
  • (17) This sets up the importance of both parents from the start, and skewers the discrimination endemic in many societies, including the UK, where women of child-bearing age are less likely to get jobs for fear they might at some point need maternity leave.
  • (18) To emphasise the point, he skewers a bit of chicken on his plate and holds it up with a grin.
  • (19) Cecil the lion's killer joins long list of big game hunters skewered on social media Read more Kathleen Garrigan, spokeswoman for the conservation group African Wildlife Foundation, said on Tuesday that while listing the African lion as threatened under the act would be most successful in stopping the import of hunting trophies, private companies such as airlines could help in curbing the transport of the trophies.
  • (20) But in a culture that still tells women that the most important job title they’ll ever hold is “mother” – and with Republicans at the ready to skewer anyone who hints at anything but pure reverence for women who stay at home – Clinton’s message is actually quite subversive.