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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cooker
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gas cooker/oven/stove
▪ Gas cookers are more efficient than electric ones.
electric light/kettle/cooker etc
▪ the heat from a small electric fire
pressure cooker
▪ the pressure cooker of soccer management
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
electric
▪ Breakfast bar. Electric and gas cooker points.
▪ Plumbing for automatic washing machine and dishwasher. Electric cooker point.
▪ There was an old-fashioned sink under the window, and a new-looking electric cooker, with cupboards on both sides.
▪ Connelly didn't know how long the rings of the electric cooker had been on but one of them was almost white-hot.
▪ Power points. Electric cooker point.
▪ Nowadays I am a lot better placed and able to eat better because of the electric cooker.
new
▪ But in 1940, nobody was looking for a new type of cooker.
▪ He is planning another trip into the countryside to demonstrate his solar cells as well as a new solar cooker.
▪ When she requires a new cooker, she begs for a small loan from the Department of Social Security.
▪ The ideal companion to any New World cooker whether built-in, slide-in or freestanding.
■ NOUN
gas
▪ Emily Mahon stood in front of the gas cooker and grilled the ten rashers that she served every morning except Friday.
▪ It is the start of a new generation of gas cookers.
▪ Instead he'd fill his aluminium container and take it back to boil on his small gas cooker.
▪ From outside in the passageway the sound of water bubbling and steaming on the old gas cooker could be heard.
▪ Britain's most advanced gas cooker.
▪ Clarence entered the park at the request of the Trust to repair the gas cooker in the cafeteria.
▪ Walk in larder. Gas cooker outlet.
pressure
▪ Good stainless steel pressure cookers cost around £40.
▪ Fearless until now, I suddenly remembered the reason why pressure cookers had fallen out of favor.
▪ Place the required amount of water and the beans or peas in the pressure cooker.
▪ Most experts agree that if you can afford it, you should buy one of the new generation of pressure cookers.
▪ Normally, most beans take about 45 minutes to cook, so allow 15 minutes in the pressure cooker.
▪ But the best, most magical moment was when I made risotto with the pressure cooker.
▪ Prestige's stainless steel pressure cooker with a Thermocore base allows you to produce delicious, complete meals in minutes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a rice cooker
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But in 1940, nobody was looking for a new type of cooker.
▪ In the mid-1950s nearly half of all cookers used by consumers were still on hire.
▪ Liability in this case would depend on why the cooker exploded.
▪ Luckily the little rusty cookers themselves stood up to the punishment.
▪ Most experts agree that if you can afford it, you should buy one of the new generation of pressure cookers.
▪ Plastic pipe should not be installed near hot appliances such as cookers.
▪ The famous Bramleys Seedling cooker will not pollinate others, thus two others from the same group are needed.
▪ This might connect with experiences of seeing liquids boiling away on a cooker.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
cooker

cooker \cooker\ n. an implement for cooking.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cooker

type of stove, 1884, from cook (v.) + -er (1).

Wiktionary
cooker

n. 1 (context chiefly British English) A device for heating food 2 (context chiefly British except in compounds English) An appliance or utensil for cooking food. 3 A cooking apple.

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WordNet
cooker

n. a utensil for cooking

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Wikipedia
Cooker

Cooker may refer to several types of cooking appliances and devices used for cooking foods.

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Usage examples of "cooker".

Jonathan could now make out tousled clumps of trees roundabout him hoisting up out of the water like little clusters of vegetables clamped into an asparagus cooker.

Maus abhorred tea bags, pressure cookers, canned fruit cocktail, bottled mayonnaise, instant coffee, iceberg lettuce, monosodium glutamate, eggs poached in geometric shapes, New England boiled dinners, and anything resembling a smorgasbord, salad bar, or all-you-can-eat buffet.

Mix the ketchup, teriyaki sauce, Splenda, molasses, and garlic together, pour it into the cooker, cover the pot, and set it on Low.

Marr, and Senn slid his tiny shoulders under the sonar cooker and strained upward.

The kitchens were cavernous, glistening with white porcelain tile and stainless steel cookers and bins that could serve eighteen thousand hot meals a day.

Stomping down an area for a fire, he fetched a few worn booties and soaked them with fuel from his cooker, then laid them among the pieces of wood.

Company Science Center chemist named Charlotte Tresca had proceeded along completely unscientific lines and found that Fuzzies were nuts about only Extee-Three that had been prepared in titanium cookers.

Instead, transfer the soup to a slow cooker coated with nonstick cooking sprya.

Coat the inside of a 5-quart slow cooker or a large roasting pan with nonstick cooking spray.

Grease or coat with nonstick cooking spray the inside of a 4-quart slow cooker.

Coat the inside of a 5-quart slow cooker with other nonstick cooking spray.

Heh as the sticks that kill far off -with thunder and lightning, and he has given those to some of the Stone Cookers, too.

Now there will be the Stone Cookers not far to the north of us, who will have the killing sticks given to them by the hairy-faces up there!

The chief hairy-faces spoke softly to one another and to a few of the Stone Cookers in the forefront, and back in the crowd some of the women could be heard yelping as they separated their snarling, fighting pack dogs.

Stone Cookers must have snatched it up and carried it out when they were driven out of the lodge.