Cook vs. Commis — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cook and Commis
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Definitions
Cook
To prepare (food) for eating by applying heat.
Commis
(obsolete) A deputy or clerk of a foreign official
Cook
To prepare or treat by heating
Slowly cooked the medicinal mixture.
Commis
An assistant to a chef
Cook
(Slang) To alter or falsify so as to make a more favorable impression; doctor
Disreputable accountants who were paid to cook the firm's books.
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Cook
To prepare food for eating by applying heat.
Cook
To undergo application of heat especially for the purpose of later ingestion.
Cook
(Slang) To happen, develop, or take place
What's cooking in town?.
Cook
(Slang) To proceed or perform very well
The band really got cooking after midnight.
Cook
A person who prepares food for eating.
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Cook
(cooking) A person who prepares food.
I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.
Cook
(cooking) The head cook of a manor house.
Cook
(cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
Cook
(slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.
Cook
(slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
Cook
A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
Cook
To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
I'm cooking bangers and mash.
He's in the kitchen, cooking.
Cook
(intransitive) To be cooked.
The dinner is cooking on the stove.
Cook
To be uncomfortably hot.
Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.
Cook
(slang) To execute by electric chair.
Cook
To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab one and throw it back.
Cook
To concoct or prepare.
Cook
To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
Cook
To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
Watch this band: they cook!
Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!
Cook
To play music vigorously.
On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!
Cook
To make the noise of the cuckoo.
Cook
To throw.
Cook
To make the noise of the cuckoo.
Constant cuckoos cook on every side.
Cook
To throw.
Cook
To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.
Cook
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.
They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different.
Cook
To prepare food for the table.
Cook
One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.
Cook
A fish, the European striped wrasse.
Cook
Someone who cooks food
Cook
English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
Cook
Prepare a hot meal;
My husband doesn't cook
Cook
Prepare for eating by applying heat;
Cook me dinner, please
Can you make me an omelette?
Fix breakfast for the guests, please
Cook
Transform and make suitable for consumption by heating;
These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes
Cook
Transform by heating;
The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle
Cook
Fake or falsify;
Fudge the figures
Cook the books
Falsify the data
