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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"

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Webster 1913 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

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