cook vs warm up

cook

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

  • 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 be uncomfortably hot. 

  • 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. 

warm up

verb
  • To heat or reheat (e.g. food). 

  • To reach, or cause to reach, a normal operating temperature (of a car for example). 

  • To become warmer. 

  • To do gentle exercise, stretching etc., in order to prepare the body for more vigorous exercise. 

  • To make (an audience) enthusiastic or animated before a show 

  • To prepare for an activity by carrying out a practice or preparation routine. 

How often have the words cook and warm up occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )