cook vs heat

cook

verb
  • To be uncomfortably hot. 

  • To tamper with or alter; to cook up. 

  • To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.) 

  • To concoct or prepare. 

  • To play music vigorously. 

  • To execute by electric chair. 

  • To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients. 

  • To be cooked. 

  • To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown. 

noun
  • The degree or quality of cookedness of food 

  • One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth. 

  • A person who prepares food. 

  • A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus. 

  • The head cook of a manor house 

  • A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth. 

heat

verb
  • To become hotter. 

  • To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions. 

  • To arouse, to excite (sexually). 

  • To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish. 

  • To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up"). 

noun
  • A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate; oestrus. 

  • A hot spell. 

  • The output of a heating system. 

  • An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth. 

  • One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further. 

  • The condition or quality of being hot. 

  • Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building. 

  • A period of intensity, particularly of emotion. 

  • A fastball. 

  • An undesirable amount of attention. 

  • A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race 

  • A violent action unintermitted; a single effort. 

  • A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round. 

  • In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate. 

  • One or more firearms. 

  • Thermal energy. 

  • The police. 

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