cook Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun someone who cooks food
  2. noun English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
    Captain Cook; James Cook; Captain James Cook.
  3. verb prepare a hot meal
    • My husband doesn't cook
  4. verb prepare for eating by applying heat
    ready; fix; make; prepare.
    • Cook me dinner, please
    • can you make me an omelette?
    • fix breakfast for the guests, please
  5. verb transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
    • These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes
  6. verb tamper, with the purpose of deception
    wangle; fake; misrepresent; fudge; falsify; manipulate.
    • Fudge the figures
    • cook the books
    • falsify the data
  7. verb transform by heating
    • The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle

WordNet

Cook intransitive verb
Etymology
Of imitative origin.
Definitions
  1. To make the noise of the cuckoo. Obs. or R.
    Constant cuckoos cook on every side. The Silkworms (1599).
Cook transitive verb
Etymology
Etymol. unknown.
Definitions
  1. To throw. Prov.Eng. "Cook me that ball." Grose.
Cook noun
Etymology
AS. coc, fr. l. cocus, coquus, coquus, fr. coquere to cook; akin to Gr. , Skr. pac, and to E. apricot, biscuit, concoct, dyspepsia, precocious. Cf. Pumpkin.
Definitions
  1. One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.
  2. (Zoöl.) A fish, the European striped wrasse.
Cook transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Cooked ; present participle & verbal noun Cooking
Definitions
  1. To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.
  2. 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. Colloq.
    They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different. Addison.
Cook intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To prepare food for the table.

Webster 1913