Cook

[kʊk]

Definition

(noun.) someone who cooks food.

(noun.) English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779).

(verb.) transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; 'These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes'.

(verb.) transform by heating; 'The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle'.

(verb.) prepare for eating by applying heat; 'Cook me dinner, please'; 'can you make me an omelette?'; 'fix breakfast for the guests, please'.

(verb.) prepare a hot meal; 'My husband doesn't cook'.

Typist: Nigel--From WordNet

Definition

(v. i.) To make the noise of the cuckoo.

(v. t.) To throw.

(n.) One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.

(n.) A fish, the European striped wrasse.

(v. t.) To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.

(v. t.) To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.

(v. i.) To prepare food for the table.

Typist: Weldon

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Prepare (food) by heat.

Typed by Emile

Definition

v.i. (Scot.) to appear and disappear by turns.

v.i. to make the sound of the cuckoo.

v.t. to prepare food: to manipulate for any purpose or falsify as accounts &c.: to concoct.—n. one whose business is to cook.—ns. Cook′ery the art or practice of cooking; Cook′ery-book a book of receipts for cooking dishes.—n.pl. Cook′ing-app′les &c. apples &c. sold specially for cooking.—ns. Cook′ing-range a stove adapted for cooking several things at once; Cook′-room a room in which food is cooked; Cook′-shop an eating-house.—To cook one's goose (slang) to finish off to kill.

Checked by Adelaide