cooking
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Sense: Being cooked
Synonyms:
simmering, heating Collocations, boiling Collocations, brewing, stewing, frying, broiling, grilling, browning, roasting, baking Collocations, toasting, steaming, steeping, mulling, sizzling Collocations, being cooked, barbecuing, searing, deep-frying, pan-frying, stir-frying, sautéing, braising, slow-cooking, oven-cooking, oven-baking, poaching, hard-boiling, soft-boiling, pressure-cooking
Sense: In preparation
Synonyms:
being made, going on, under way, happening Collocations, begun, in preparation, afoot, astir, occurring, brewing
Synonyms:
cookery, cuisine Collocations, culinary art, dish Collocations, food Collocations, haute cuisine , food preparation, home economics, domestic science, frying, pan-frying, shallow-frying, sautéing, deep-frying, stir-frying, baking Collocations, oven-baking, roasting, oven-roasting, broiling, charbroiling, chargrilling, grilling, toasting, warming, warming through, warming up, heating Collocations, boiling Collocations, simmering, parboiling, barbecuing, searing, steaming, braising, poaching, hard-boiling, soft-boiling
cook
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Sense: Noun: chef
Synonyms:
chef Collocations, baker Collocations, sous-chef, head cook, cooker Collocations, short-order cook, fry cook, meat cook, salad chef, gourmet chef, culinarian
Sense: Verb: prepare food
Synonyms:
prepare Collocations, make Collocations, bake Collocations, heat Collocations, warm Collocations, warm up, heat up, reheat, concoct, fix Collocations, fry Collocations, boil Collocations, roast Collocations, broil, grill Collocations, stew Collocations, simmer Collocations, braise, steam Collocations, blanch, poach Collocations, toast Collocations, sauté, stir-fry, barbecue Collocations, microwave Collocations, nuke , sear, fricassee, pressure-cook, parboil, precook, pan-fry, panbroil, deep-fry, charbroil, griddle, brown Collocations, blacken, curry Collocations, devil Collocations, scallop Collocations, melt Collocations, scald, parch, scorch, reduce Collocations, boil down, baste, cook sth over a slow fire, broast, char, incinerate, carbonize, carbonise , reduce down, chargrill, slow-cook
Sense: Verb: happen
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Sense: Verb: falsify - slang
Synonyms:
falsify, fake Collocations, fudge Collocations, slant Collocations, bend Collocations, distort Collocations, adulterate, tamper with, alter Collocations, change Collocations