cooker
Word family
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++cook·er /ˈkʊkə $ -ər/ noun [countable] British English 
1 DHa large piece of equipment for cooking food on or in 厨灶；炉具 SYN American English stove a gas cooker 煤气炉灶2. DFa fruit, especially an apple, that is suitable for cooking but not for eating raw 适宜煮食而不宜生吃的水果〔尤指某种苹果〕Examples from the Corpus
cooker• This might connect with experiences of seeing liquids boiling away on a cooker.• In the mid-1950s nearly half of all cookers used by consumers were still on hire.• Plastic pipe should not be installed near hot appliances such as cookers.• But in 1940, nobody was looking for a new type of cooker.• Most experts agree that if you can afford it, you should buy one of the new generation of pressure cookers.• a rice cooker• Luckily the little rusty cookers themselves stood up to the punishment.• The famous Bramleys Seedling cooker will not pollinate others, thus two others from the same group are needed.• Liability in this case would depend on why the cooker exploded.cook·er nounChineseSyllable
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cooker
cook‧er S3 /ˈkʊkə $ -ər/
noun [countable] British English
1. a large piece of equipment for cooking food on or in
SYN stove American English:
a gas cooker
2. a fruit, especially an apple, that is suitable for cooking but not for eating raw
cook‧er S3 /ˈkʊkə $ -ər/
noun [countable] British English Word Family: noun: cook, cooker, cookery, cooking; adjective: cooked ≠ uncooked, overcooked ≠ UNDERCOOKED, cooking; verb: cook, overcook ≠ UNDERCOOK
1. a large piece of equipment for cooking food on or in
SYN stove American English:
2. a fruit, especially an apple, that is suitable for cooking but not for eating raw