different between knockdown vs cook

English

Etymology

knock +? down

Pronunciation

Noun

knockdown (countable and uncountable, plural knockdowns)

1. An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.
2. An overwhelming blow.
3. (slang, obsolete, uncountable) Very strong ale or beer.
4. (genetics) A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced.
5. (genetics) The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene.
6. (nautical) The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface.
7. (soccer) a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet.
8. (film, television) A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room.
   • 1999, Scott Skelton, Jim Benson, Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-hours Tour (page 294)

     We shot 'The Caterpillar' at General Service Studios, and the dressing rooms for the actors were what they call knockdowns: wooden frames covered in grungy, dirty red canvas. It looked like a circus tent.

9. A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly.

   Synonym: KD

Translations

Verb

knockdown (third-person singular simple present knockdowns, present participle knockdowning, simple past and past participle knockdowned)

1. (genetics) To employ the knockdown technique

Adjective

knockdown (not comparable)

1. powerful enough to overwhelm or knock down

   a knockdown argument

   a knockdown blow

2. reduced in price, originally to a price below which an article would not be sold by the auctioneer
3. Capable of being taken apart for packing or removal.

   knockdown furniture

4. (of a rivet head) To be formed into a head by upsetting in fastening.

Derived terms

• knockdown-dragout

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.