cook·er

(ko͝ok′ər)

1. One that cooks, especially a utensil or an appliance for cooking.

2. A person employed to operate cooking apparatuses in the commercial preparation of food and drink.

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cooker

(ˈkʊkə)

1. (Cookery) an apparatus, usually of metal and heated by gas, electricity, oil, or solid fuel, for cooking food; stove

2. (Cookery) Brit any large sour apple used in cooking

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

cook•er

(ˈkʊk ər)

n.

1. an appliance or utensil for cooking: pressure cooker.

2. a person employed in certain industrial processes, as in brewing or distilling, to operate cooking apparatus.

[1880–85]

cooker

– cook

1. 'cooker'

A cooker is a metal oven and hot plate that you use for boiling, grilling, or roasting food.

The food was warming in a saucepan on the cooker.

In American English, this machine is called a range.

Can you cook fried chicken on an electric range?

2. 'cook'

A cook is someone who cooks meals as their job.

They had a butler, a cook, and a maid.

You can also describe someone's ability to cook by using cook with an adjective. For example, you can say that someone is a good cook or a bad cook.

Abigail is an excellent cook.

Be Careful!
Don't refer to a person who cooks meals as a 'cooker'. Don't say, for example, 'Abigail is an excellent cooker'.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

cooker - a utensil for cooking

cooking utensil, cookware - a kitchen utensil made of material that does not melt easily; used for cooking

Crock Pot - A trademark used for an electric cooker that maintains a relatively low temperature

popper - a container for cooking popcorn

Translations

تُفّاح للطَّـبْـخجِـهـاز الـطَّبْـخمَوْقِد

sporákvařičpotravina k vaření

komfurmadæblekogeæble

liesi

štednjak

kompótalma

eldunartæki, hellaepli til matreiîslu

fornello cucina focolaio mela acerba da cuocere pentola

料理用レンジ

요리 기구

fornuis

komfyr mateple matfrukt kokeapparat

kuchenka

fogão

кухонная плита

potravina na varenie

kuhalnik

spis

เตาหุงอาหาร

ocakyemeklik elma vsfırın

bếp

炊具烹饪用水果炉灶

cooker

[ˈkʊkəʳ] N

1. (Brit) (= stove) → cocina f, horno m (esp LAm) (US) → olla f para cocinar
gas/electric cooker → cocina f de gas/eléctrica

2. (= cooking apple) → manzana f para cocer

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

cooker

[ˈkʊkə^r] n → cuisinière f gas cooker

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

cooker

(esp Brit: = stove) → Herd m

(= apple) → Kochapfel m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

cooker

[ˈkʊkəʳ] n (stove) → cucina (elettrodomestico); (cooking apple) → mela da cuocere

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

cook

(kuk) verb

to prepare (food) or become ready by heating. She cooked the chicken; The chicken is cooking in the oven.

noun

a person who cooks, especially for a living. She was employed as a cook at the embassy.

ˈcooker noun

1. an apparatus on which food is cooked; a stove. She has an electric cooker.

2. an apple etc used in cooking, not for eating raw.

ˈcookery noun

the art or practice of cooking food. She was taught cookery at school; (also adjective) cookery classes.

ˈcookery-book noun

(American ˈcook-book) a book of instructions on how to prepare and cook various dishes.

cook up

to invent or make up a false story etc. He cooked up a story about his car having broken down.

cooker

→ مَوْقِد sporák komfur Herd κουζίνα cocina, estufa liesi cuisinière štednjak fornello 料理用レンジ 요리 기구 fornuis komfyr kuchenka fogão кухонная плита spis เตาหุงอาหาร ocak bếp 炊具

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Thus, a mongrel semblance to a cooker spaniel of a dog was tried out for several days as a pony-rider who would leap through paper hoops from the pony's back, and return upon the back again.

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Soldiers scattered over the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers. In one company dinner was ready, and the soldiers were gazing eagerly at the steaming boiler, waiting till the sample, which a quartermaster sergeant was carrying in a wooden bowl to an officer who sat on a log before his shelter, had been tasted.

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