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Verb
/ko͝ok/,
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cooks, 3rd person singular present; cooked, past participle; cooking, present participle; cooked, past tense;
  1. Prepare (food, a dish, or a meal) by combining and heating the ingredients in various ways
    • - shall I cook dinner tonight?
    • - I told you I could cook
    • - a cooked breakfast
  2. (of food) Be heated so that the condition required for eating is reached
    • - while the rice is cooking, add the saffron to the stock
  3. Heat food and cause it to thicken and reduce in volume
    • - cooking down the chutney can take up to 45 minutes
  4. (of food being cooked) Be reduced in volume in this way

  5. Be happening or planned
    • - what's cooking on the alternative fuels front?
  6. Alter dishonestly; falsify
    • - a narcotics team who cooked the evidence
  7. Be in an inescapably bad situation
    • - if I can't talk to him, I'm cooked
  8. Perform or proceed vigorously or well
    • - the band used to get up on the bandstand and really cook
Noun
  1. A person who prepares and cooks food, esp. as a job or in a specified way
    • - a short order cook
    • - I'm a good cook
  1. (cook) someone who cooks food
  2. (cook) prepare a hot meal; "My husband doesn't cook"
  3. (cook) English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
  4. (cook) prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
  5. (cook) transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"
  6. (cook) fudge: tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"
  7. ...Cooks! is an ITV cookery show, hosted by Antony Worrall Thompson.
  8. The Cooks was an Australian television drama series that ran for one season on Network Ten during the summer of 2004/05. It was a co-production with subscription television and screened on the UKTV channel on Foxtel. It was produced by Penny Chapman and Sue Masters. ...
  9. (AN Cook) Alastair Nathan Cook (born 25 December 1984) is an English international cricket player. He is a left-handed opening batsman who currently plays county cricket for Essex and Test cricket for England. Cook played for Essex's Academy and quickly made his debut for the first XI in 2003. ...
  10. (Cook (Brentford cricketer)) Cook (dates unknown) was an English professional cricketer from Brentford who played in major matches for Middlesex during the 1730s. He was "reckoned one of the best bowlers in England".Buckley, p.10.
  11. (Cook (crater)) Cook is a lunar crater that lies in the western part of the Mare Fecunditatis, just to the southeast of the prominent crater Colombo. To the southwest is Monge.
  12. (Cook (DDG 75)) USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy.
  13. (cook) A person who prepares food for a living; To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients; To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients; To become ready for eating by the application of heat ...
  14. (Cook) An English occupational surname for a cook, or a seller of cooked food
  15. (cooked) Of food, that has been prepared by cooking; Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable; (of accounting records, intelligence) partially or wholly fabricated, falsified
  16. (Cook) Prepare heroin for injection by mixing it with water and heating it.
  17. (COOK) Common abbreviation for the Cookbook pages in the Cookbook namespace. See also Wikibooks:Shortcuts.
  18. (COOK) Good surf. When the surf cooks, it is going off its face, firing, pumping, cranking, going off its pip, sick, rad, ballistic. Consistent, big, clean, beautifully shaped waves. Someone who cooks is not a chef. He or she is a good surfer.
  19. (COOK) Working at making something more palatable or easier to accept / Your ability to nourish others (or self) emotionally, physically, spiritually or intellectually / Family responsibilities; comfort / Inventing something; cooking up a plan / (see FOOD, OVEN, KITCHEN)
  20. (Cook) A fancy household preferred a male French chef. During the Regency people favoured all things French, a stark irony considering they were at war with that country. ...
  21. (Cook) A person employed to perform culinary service. In early times among the Hebrews cooking was performed by the mistress of the household (Gen 18:2; Jdg 6:19), and the process was very expeditiously performed (Gen 27:3, Gen 27:4, Gen 27:9, Gen 27:10). ...
  22. (Cook) A suffix meaning a pool or bay, often applied to a lake or pond. (I)
  23. (Cook) An alternative solution, not intended by the composer, that renders a problem unsound.
  24. (Cook) An unintended solution of a chess problem.
  25. (Cook) Synonym of Process. Length of time at a given pressure and temperature to sterilize a canned food product.