cook

cuisinier, cuisinière

Personne qui prépare les repas, chez elle ou dans le cadre de son métier.

En anglais simple : Someone who prepares food, as a job or at home.

• My father is a good cook.
• The restaurant hired two cooks.
• Who is the best cook in your family?

Synonymes : chef

Expressions courantes : good cook, restaurant cook, head cook

fabricant de drogue

Personne qui fabrique des drogues illégales, notamment de la méthamphétamine.

En anglais simple : Someone who makes illegal drugs, especially methamphetamine.

• Police arrested a meth cook.
• The cooks worked in an illegal drug lab.
• Investigators found chemicals used by the cook.

Expressions courantes : meth cook, drug cook

cuisiner, faire cuire

Préparer des aliments pour les manger, généralement en les chauffant.

En anglais simple : To prepare food for eating, usually by heating it.

• I cook dinner every evening.
• She cooked rice for lunch.
• Can you cook for six people?

Comment l'utiliser : cook something for someone (He cooked a meal for his friends.); cook someone something (She cooked us dinner.)

Synonymes : prepare

Expressions courantes : cook dinner, cook a meal, cook for someone, cook rice

crever de chaud

Avoir tellement chaud qu’on a l’impression de cuire.

En anglais simple : To feel much too hot.

• We are cooking in this room.
• The dog was cooking in the hot car.
• Without a fan, I cooked all afternoon.

Synonymes : roast, swelter

Expressions courantes : cook in something, cook in here