Definitions of Cook [ʊk]

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Definition of 'Cook'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t) cook
to prepare (food) by the use of heat, as by boiling, baking, or roasting.

2.  cook
to subject (anything) to the application of heat.

3.  cook
Slang. to ruin; spoil.

4.  cook
Informal. to falsify, as accounts:
to cook the books.

5. (v.i.) cook
to prepare food by the use of heat.

6.  cook
(of food) to undergo cooking.

7.  cook
Slang.

8.  cook
to perform or do extremely well or with energy and style:
The band is really cooking tonight.

9.  cook
to be full of activity and excitement.

10.  cook
cook off, (of a shell or cartridge) to explode or fire without being triggered as a result of overheating in the weapon chamber.

11.  cook
cook up,

12.  cook
to concoct or contrive, esp. falsely:
to cook up an excuse.

13. (n.) cook
a person who cooks.

14. (n.) Cook
Captain James, 1728–79, English explorer of the S Pacific, Antarctica, and the coasts of Australia and New Zealand.

15.  Cook
Mount.

Definition of 'Cook'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) cook
someone who cooks food

2. (verb) Cook, James Cook, Captain Cook, Captain James Cook
English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)

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

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

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

6. (verb) fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent
tamper, with the purpose of deception
"Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"

7. (verb) cook
transform by heating
"The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"

Definition of 'Cook'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) cook
to prepare food with heat
Who's cooking dinner tonight?; I never have time to cook.

2. cook
(of food) to be heated until it is ready to eat
The potatoes take 15 minutes to cook.

3. (noun) cook
sb who cooks
a professional cook; I'm not a good cook.

Definition of 'Cook'

Webster Dictionary

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

2. (noun) Cook
a fish, the European striped wrasse

3. (verb) Cook
to make the noise of the cuckoo

4. (verb) Cook
to throw

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

6. (verb) Cook
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

7. (verb) Cook
to prepare food for the table

Translation of 'Cook'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to prepare (food) or become ready by heating She cooked the chicken; The chicken is cooking in the oven.
Afrikaans: kook, gaarmaak	Arabic: يَطْبُـخ، يَطـهـو	Bulgarian: готвя
Brazilian: cozinhar	Czech: vařit, péci	German: kochen
Danish: lave mad; koge; stege	Greek: μαγειρεύω	Spanish: cocinar, guisar, preparar
Estonian: keetma, küpsetama, küpsem	Farsi: پختن	Finnish: tehdä ruokaa
French: (faire) cuire	Hebrew: לְבָשֵל	Hindi: पकाना
Croatian: kuhati, gotoviti	Hungarian: elkészít, megfőz, megsüt	Indonesian: memasak
Icelandic: elda	Italian: cuocere, cucinare	Japanese: 料理する
Korean: 요리하다	Lithuanian: gaminti (virti, kepti ir	Latvian: (parēdienu) gatavot, gata
Malay: masak	Dutch: koken	Norwegian: lage mat, koke, steke, ba
Polish: gotować (się)	Persian: پختن	Pashto: اشپز، پخوونكى: پخول
Portuguese: cozinhar	Romanian: a găti	Russian: готовить(ся)
Slovak: variť, piecť	Slovenian: kuhati	Serbian: kuvati
Swedish: laga mat, tillaga[s], ste	Thai: ทำอาหาร	Turkish: piş(ir)mek
Taiwanese: 烹調	Ukrainian: готувати(ся); варити(ся)	Urdu: كهانا پکانا، پکنا
Vietnamese: nấu ăn	Chinese: 烹调
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