What does cook mean?
Definitions for cook
kʊkcook
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word cook.
Princeton's WordNet
cooknoun
someone who cooks food
Cook, James Cook, Captain Cook, Captain James Cookverb
English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
cookverb
prepare a hot meal
"My husband doesn't cook"
cook, fix, ready, make, prepareverb
prepare for eating by applying heat
"Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
cookverb
transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
"These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"
fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresentverb
tamper, with the purpose of deception
"Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"
cookverb
transform by heating
"The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"
Wiktionary
Cooknoun
An English surname.
Etymology: From coken, from * (compare gecocsian, gecocnian), from kokōnan, from coquo, from pekʷ-. Cognate with koken, kochen, koka, afigen.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
COOKnoun
One whose profession is to dress and prepare victuals for the table.
Etymology: coquus, Latin.
One mistress Quickly, which is in the manner of his nurse, or his dry-nurse, or his cook, or his laundry, his washer, and his wringer. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.
The new-born babe, by nurses overlaid,
And the cook caught within the raging fire he made. Dryden.Their cooks could make artificial birds and fishes, in default of the real ones, and which exceeded them in the exquisiteness of the taste. John Arbuthnot, on Coins.
To Cookverb
Etymology: coquo, Latin.
Who can but think, that had either of the crimes been cooked to their palates, they might have changed messes. Decay of Piety.
Hanging is the word, Sir; if you be ready for that, you are well cookt. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.
ChatGPT
cook
A cook is a person who prepares food for consumption, usually following a specific recipe or culinary techniques. This may be done either professionally in restaurants and other food establishments or at home for personal enjoyment or sustenance. The tasks of a cook can range from selecting and shopping for ingredients, planning menus, to actual food preparation which involves chopping, mixing, heating, baking, grilling and plating.
Webster Dictionary
Cookverb
to make the noise of the cuckoo
Cookverb
to throw
Cooknoun
one whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating
Cooknoun
a fish, the European striped wrasse
Cookverb
to prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat
Cookverb
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
Cookverb
to prepare food for the table
Etymology: [Of imitative origin.]
Wikidata
Cook
A cook is a person who prepares food for consumption. In Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Canada this profession requires government approval. A cook is sometimes referred to as a chef, although in the professional kitchen, the terms are not interchangeable.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Cook
kook, v.t. to prepare food: to manipulate for any purpose, or falsify, as accounts, &c.: to concoct.—n. one whose business is to cook.—ns. Cook′ery, the art or practice of cooking; Cook′ery-book, a book of receipts for cooking dishes.—n.pl. Cook′ing-app′les, &c., apples, &c., sold specially for cooking.—ns. Cook′ing-range, a stove adapted for cooking several things at once; Cook′-room, a room in which food is cooked; Cook′-shop, an eating-house.—To cook one's goose (slang), to finish off, to kill. [A.S. cóc, a cook (Ger. koch), borrowed from L. coquus.]
Cook
kook, v.i. to make the sound of the cuckoo.
Cook
kook, v.i. (Scot.) to appear and disappear by turns.
The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
COOK
A charitable institution, providing food and shelter for Policemen.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
cook
A man of each mess who is caterer for the day, and answerable too, wherefore he is allowed the surplus grog, termed plush (which see). The cook, par excellence, in the navy, was a man of importance, responsible for the proper cooking of the food, yet not overboiling the meat to extract the fat--his perquisite. The coppers were closely inspected daily by the captain, and if they soiled a cambric handkerchief the cook's allowance was stopped. Now, the ship's cook is a first-class petty officer, and cannot be punished as heretofore. In a merchantman the cook is, ex officio, the hero of the fore-sheet, as the steward is of the main one.
Editors Contribution
cook
To prepare food.
He did love to cook food with his wife.
Submitted by MaryC on January 16, 2020
Suggested Resources
COOK
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Who Was Who?
Cook
Son of the above who helps his father save money for the tourist. He is called "fils" in Paris.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
COOK
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Cook is ranked #65 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Cook surname appeared 302,589 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 103 would have the surname Cook.
81.8% or 247,518 total occurrences were White.
12.5% or 37,975 total occurrences were Black.
2.1% or 6,566 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.9% or 5,991 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.9% or 2,784 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
0.5% or 1,725 total occurrences were Asian.
Matched Categories
British National Corpus
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'cook' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2497
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'cook' in Verbs Frequency: #500
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of cook in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of cook in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of cook in a Sentence
One of the steps that we are taking to connect is by opening diplomatic relationships with Cook Islands and Niue.
Every week you need to dedicate about two hours of your time to get all of this stuff ready, we would call it ‘mise en place’ in the restaurant — how we cook in a restaurant is going to be how I want you to cook at home. If you prepare yourself and you have all your ingredients ready, all of your ‘mise’ in place, all of your stuff is right in front of you, then to make the dish is really just assembling.
We would wait to see and hope that it (Thomas Cook) can continue but in any event, as you would expect, we've got the contingency planning in place to make sure that in any worst-case scenario we can support all those who might otherwise be stranded.
We hope Tim Cook's substantial personal investment inspires others to support this vital and historic project.
Associates report Audrey Cook possibly sold and used cocaine.
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Translations for cook
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- kokAfrikaans
- طبّاخ, طبخArabic
- aşpazAzerbaijani
- вары́ць, гатава́ць, кухарка, куха́рыць, кухарBelarusian
- готвач, го́твя, готвяBulgarian
- রাঁধুনিBengali
- མ་བྱན, ཁ་ལག་བཟོ་བ, འཚོད་པTibetan Standard
- keginañBreton
- coure's, coure, cuinar, xef, cuinerCatalan, Valencian
- юургйийригChechen
- vařit, kuchař, kuchařkaCzech
- cogydd, coginio, cogyddesWelsh
- kokDanish
- kochen, Köchin, garen, KochGerman
- nuɖala, ɖaEwe
- ψήνομαι, μάγειρος, μαγειρεύω, παρασκευάζω, μαγείρισσαGreek
- kuiri, kuiriĝi, kuiristoEsperanto
- cocinera, cocinar, cocer, cocerse, cocineroSpanish
- kokkEstonian
- sukaldariBasque
- پختن, پزنده, آشپزی, پخت و پز, آشپز, پختهPersian
- kokki, kokata, keittää, kypsyä, [[tehdä]] [[ruokaa]], paistua, laittaa ruokaa, keittäjäFinnish
- kokkurFaroese
- cuisinier, cuisiner, chef, cuireFrench
- bruichScottish Gaelic
- cociñar, cocer, cociñeiroGalician
- הִתְבַּשֵּׁל, בישל, טבחית, טבחHebrew
- रसोइया, पकानाHindi
- fő, szakács, főz, forróHungarian
- եփել, խոհարար, պատրաստելArmenian
- kokiIndonesian
- koquar, koquadarIdo
- kokkur, eldaIcelandic
- cuoca, cuocere, cucinare, cuocoItalian
- コック, シェフ, 料理, 調理師, 料理人Japanese
- საჭმლის მომზადებაGeorgian
- аспазKazakh
- ធ្វើបាយ, ដណ្ដាំ, ស្ល, ចំអិន, អ្នកដាំស្ល, ដាំស្ល, ដុត, អ្នកធ្វើបាយKhmer
- 요리사, 요리하다, 쿡Korean
- چێشت حازرکردن, چێشت لێنانKurdish
- keginaCornish
- повар, ашпозKyrgyz
- coctūrārius, cocus, coctor, coquus, coquereLatin
- brutschen, kachenLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ຄົນຄົວກິນ, ພໍ່ຄົວ, ຄົວກິນLao
- kokasLithuanian
- pavārsLatvian
- готвач, го́тви, готвачкаMacedonian
- പാകം ചെയ്യുന്നുMalayalam
- kok, kokaMaltese
- kokk, lage mat, kokkeNorwegian
- koken, kokkin, bakken, kokDutch
- kokke, kokkNorwegian Nynorsk
- yibéézh, chʼiyáán ííłʼíní, yiłbéézhNavajo, Navaho
- còireOccitan
- kucharz, gotować, kucharkaPolish
- cozinhar, cozinheiro, torrar, cozinheiraPortuguese
- coier, cuschinarRomansh
- bucătar, gătiRomanian
- готовиться, гото́вить, кухарка, готовить, стря́пать, кок, вари́ть, повар, состря́пать, свари́ть, повариха, пригото́вить, приготовить, стряпухаRussian
- पचतिSanskrit
- còchereSardinian
- skuvati, скувати, kȕhār, кувар, кухар, kȕvār, kȕvarica, kuvati, kȕharica, кувати, куварица, кухарицаSerbo-Croatian
- kuchár, variť, kuchárkaSlovak
- kuhati se, kuhati, kuharica, cvreti se, skuhati, kuhar, skuhati seSlovene
- kuzhinier, gatuajAlbanian
- koka, tillaga, laga mat, stekas, kock, lagasSwedish
- wapishi, mpishi, kupikaSwahili
- கூவியர், குய்Tamil
- ఉడుకు, వండు, వంటమనిషి, వంటవాడుTelugu
- ошпаз, таббохTajik
- ประกอบอาหาร, แม่ครัว, กุ๊ก, หุงหาอาหาร, ปรุงอาหาร, พ่อครัวThai
- aşpezTurkmen
- maglutoTagalog
- aşçıTurkish
- пешерчеTatar
- вари́ти, готува́ти, кухарка, кухар, кухова́ритиUkrainian
- پکاناUrdu
- oshpazUzbek
- đầu bếp, nấu chín, nấu ăn, nấuVietnamese
- hikvisinan, kvisinan, jikvisinanVolapük
- cure, fé a magnî, fé, coujhnerWalloon
- 廚師Chinese
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