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Cook   /kʊk/   Listen
Cook

verb
(past & past part. cooked; pres. part. cooking)
1.
Prepare a hot meal.
2.
Prepare for eating by applying heat.  Synonyms: fix, make, prepare, ready.  "Can you make me an omelette?" , "Fix breakfast for the guests, please"
3.
Transform and make suitable for consumption by heating.
4.
Tamper, with the purpose of deception.  Synonyms: fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle.  "Cook the books" , "Falsify the data"
5.
Transform by heating.
noun
1.
Someone who cooks food.
2.
English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779).  Synonyms: Captain Cook, Captain James Cook, James Cook.



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"Cook" Quotes from Famous Books



... President, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, Senator Cook, Mrs. Eisenhower, and my fellow citizens of this great and good country ...
— U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses • Various

... Cleon's brother Comanus was taken here; all the prisoners were first tortured, and then thrown down the rocks. At Enna Cleon made a gallant sally, and died of his wounds. Eunous fled and was pulled out of a pit with his cook, his baker, his bathman, and his fool. He is said to have died in prison of the same disease as Sulla and Herod. Rupilius crucified over 20,000 slaves, and so quenched with blood ...
— The Gracchi Marius and Sulla - Epochs Of Ancient History • A.H. Beesley

... get a good cook; all the Bavarian cooks are good. We shall cut a fine figure, and people will say ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... cook and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig, And a bo'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the ...
— Journeys Through Bookland - Volume Four • Charles H. Sylvester

... park, that the cougar is king of all the beasts of North America. Even a grizzly dashed away in great haste when a cougar made his appearance. At the road camp, near Mt. Washburn, during the fall of 1904, the bears, grizzlies and others, were always hanging round the cook tent. There were cougars also, and almost every evening, about dusk, a big fellow would come parading past the tent. The bears would grunt furiously and scamper in every direction. It was easy to tell when a cougar was in the neighborhood, by the peculiar grunts and snorts of ...
— The Last of the Plainsmen • Zane Grey


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