different between toast vs cook

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??st/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /to?st/
• Rhymes: -??st

Etymology 1

From Middle English tost, from the verb tosten (see below).

Noun

toast (countable and uncountable, plural toasts)

1. (uncountable) Toasted bread.

2. (countable) A proposed salutation (e.g. to say "cheers") while drinking alcohol.

3. (countable) A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem.

4. (slang, chiefly US, uncountable) Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury.

5. (slang, Jamaican) Extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
6. (computing, graphical user interface) A transient, informational pop-up window.

   Coordinate term: snackbar

Usage notes

The slang sense of something or someone subject to impending destruction is most commonly found predicatively in the combination be (or become) toast.

Derived terms

Related terms

• torrent
• torrid

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English tosten, from Old French toster (“to roast, grill”), from Latin tostus (“grilled, burnt”), from verb torre? (“to burn, grill”).

Verb

toast (third-person singular simple present toasts, present participle toasting, simple past and past participle toasted)

1. To lightly cook by browning via direct exposure to a fire or other heat source.

   We liked to toast marshmallows around the campfire.

2. To grill, lightly cook by browning specifically under a grill or in a toaster

   Top with cheese and toast under the grill for a few minutes.

3. To engage in a salutation and/or accompanying raising of glasses while drinking alcohol in honor of someone or something.

   We toasted the happy couple many times over the course of the evening.

4. To warm thoroughly.

   I toasted my feet by the fire.

5. (slang, Jamaican) To perform extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “toast”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• stato-, stoat, tasto, toats, totas

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English toast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to?st/
• Hyphenation: toast
• Rhymes: -o?st

Noun

toast m (plural toasts, diminutive toastje n)

1. toast (congratulation or salutation while raising a glass containing a usually alcoholic drink)
2. an event held in honour of some person or some occasion where alcoholic drinks are consumed
3. (chiefly diminutive) Melba toast

Related terms

• toasten

Estonian

Noun

toast

1. elative singular of tuba

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English toast. Doublet of tôt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/

Noun

toast m (plural toasts)

1. toast (bread)
2. toast (salutation)

Further reading

• “toast” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English toast.

Noun

toast m (invariable)

1. toast, pledge (in honour of someone)
2. toasted sandwich

Anagrams

• stato, tasto, tastò, tosta

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English toast.

Noun

toast m (definite singular toasten, indefinite plural toaster, definite plural toastene)

1. toast (toasted bread)

Synonyms

• ristet brød

References

• “toast” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English toast.

Noun

toast m (definite singular toasten, indefinite plural toastar, definite plural toastane)

1. toast (toasted bread)

Synonyms

• rista brød

References

• “toast” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English toast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?.ast/

Noun

toast m inan

1. toast (proposed salutation)

Declension

Further reading

• toast in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French toast.

Noun

toast n (plural toasturi)

1. toast (salutation when drinking alcohol)

Declension

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.