different between giant vs cook

English

Alternative forms

• giaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English geaunt, geant, from Old French geant, gaiant (Modern French géant) from Vulgar Latin *gag?s, gagant-, from Latin gig?s, gigant-, from Ancient Greek ????? (gígas, “giant”) Cognate to giga- (“1,000,000,000”).

Displaced native Middle English eten, ettin (from Old English ?oten), and Middle English eont (from Old English ent).

Compare Modern English ent (“giant tree-man”) and Old English þyrs (“giant, monster, demon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?a?.?nt/
  • (dialectal, nonstandard) IPA^(key): /?d?a?nt/
• Rhymes: -a??nt
• Hyphenation: gi?ant

Noun

giant (plural giants)

1. A mythical human of very great size.
2. (mythology) Specifically:
   1. Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
   2. A jotun.
3. A very tall and large person.
4. A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
5. (astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
6. (computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
7. A very large organisation.
8. A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
   • 1988, Thomas Dolby, "Airhead":

     she's not the intellectual giant

Synonyms

See also: Thesaurus:giant

Translations

Adjective

giant (not comparable)

1. Very large.

Synonyms

• colossal, enormous, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast
• See also Thesaurus:gigantic

Antonyms

• dwarf
• midget

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• TA'ing, TAing, Taing, anti-g, tagin, tangi, tiang, tinga

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?k/
• (UK dialectal, obsolete elsewhere) IPA^(key): /ku?k/

• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English cook, from Old English c?c (“a cook”), from Latin cocus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pek?- (“to cook, become ripe”).

Cognate with Low German kokk, Dutch kok, German Koch, Danish kok, Norwegian kokk, Swedish kock, Icelandic kokkur (“cook”). Also compare Proto-West Germanic *kok?n (“to cook”).

Noun

cook (plural cooks)

1. (cooking) A person who prepares food.

   Hyponyms: chef, cordon bleu

2. (cooking) The head cook of a manor house
3. (cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food
4. (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
5. (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
6. A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

Coordinate terms

(food preparation):

• chef, culinary artist (skilful or lead cook), magirist, magirologist (skilful cook, obs.); sous-chef, prep cook (assistant cook); line cook (team cook); cookess, cookeress (female, uncommon)

(head cook of a manor house):

• scullery maid, kitchen maid

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Norman: couque
• ? Thai: ???? (gúk)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English coken, from the noun cook.

Verb

cook (third-person singular simple present cooks, present participle cooking, simple past and past participle cooked)

1. (transitive or intransitive) 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.
2. (intransitive) To be cooked.

   The dinner is cooking on the stove.

3. (intransitive, figuratively) 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.

4. (slang) To execute by electric chair.
5. (transitive, slang) 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.

6. To concoct or prepare.
7. To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
8. (intransitive, jazz, slang) 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!

   • 1957, Miles Davis quoted by Ira Gitler, liner notes to Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Prestige LP 7094:

     This album is called Cookin’ at Miles’ request. He said, “After all, that’s what we did – came in and cooked.”

9. (intransitive, music, slang) To play music vigorously.

   On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!

   • 2012, Los Angeles Times, "Review: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra won't stand still":

     The tempos were swift. The orchestra cooked, reading [conductor] Kahane's mind and swinging with him as one.

Synonyms

• (to be uncomfortably hot): bake, stew
• (hold on to a grenade): cook off

Hypernyms

• (to prepare or plan something): concoct, contrive, devise, make up, plan, prepare

Hyponyms

• Troponyms: bake, barbecue, boil, braise, fry, grill, microwave, poach, roast, scramble, steam, stew
• See also Thesaurus:cook

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• mageiricophobia

Etymology 3

Imitative.

Verb

cook (third-person singular simple present cooks, present participle cooking, simple past and past participle cooked)

1. (obsolete, rare, intransitive) To make the noise of the cuckoo.

Etymology 4

Unknown; possibly related to chuck.

Verb

cook (third-person singular simple present cooks, present participle cooking, simple past and past participle cooked)

1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To throw.

References

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cok, coke, koke, cuyke, cuke, cooke

Etymology

From Old English c?c, from Vulgar Latin cocus, from Latin coquus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?k/

Noun

cook (plural cookes)

1. cook, chef, restauranteur
2. (figuratively) nourisher, nourishment

Descendants

• Scots: cuke, cuik
• English: cook
  • ? Norman: couque
  • ? Thai: ???? (gúk)

References

• “c??k, n.(6).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.