cook
IPA: kˈʊk
noun
- (cooking) A person who prepares food.
- (cooking) The head cook of a manor house.
- (cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
- (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
- (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
- A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
- (chess) An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.
- (countable) An English surname originating as an occupation for a cook or seller of cooked food. Famously held by James Cook, English captain and explorer of the Pacific Ocean, and for whom the Cook Islands, Cook Strait and Mount Cook were named.
- A placename:
- A locale in the United States.
- A city in Minnesota; named for railroad official Wirth Cook.
- A village in Nebraska; named for landowner Andrew Cook.
- An unincorporated community in Ohio; named for landowner Matthew S. Cook.
- A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia; named for James Cook.
- The Shire of Cook, a local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia.
- A ghost town in South Australia, Australia; named for Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia.
- A river in New Zealand.
- An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
verb
- (transitive or intransitive) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
- (intransitive) To be cooked.
- (transitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
- (slang) To execute by electric chair.
- (transitive, military slang) To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
- To concoct or prepare.
- To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
- (intransitive, jazz, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
- (intransitive, music, slang) To play music vigorously.
- (intransitive, slang, humorous) To proceed with some advantageous plan or course of action; to be successful.
- (obsolete, rare, intransitive) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
- (UK, dialect, obsolete) To throw.
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Examples of "cook" in Sentences
- My mother always wanted to cook foods in firsthand.
- All the food was eaten and cooked in the yard in big pots.
- The roots or bulbs cooked make palatable and nutritious food.
- The food is then cooked and pasteurized in the sealed package.
- The series examines the history of American cooking and foods.
- A food defrost and cooking apparatus includes a drum and a stand.
- Eatable without cooking, tsampa makes useful, if dull trekking food.
- The ideas of yin and yang are used in the sphere of food and cooking.
- Food seems to be available specially cooked out of regular mealtimes.
- Mincing is a cooking technique in which food ingredients are finely divided.