cook
noun
1. someone who cooks food
Definition categories: person
Sentences with cook as a noun:
- Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.
verb
1. prepare a hot meal
- My husband doesn't cook
Definition categories: creation
2. prepare for eating by applying heat
- Cook me dinner, please
Similar word(s): fix, make, prepare, ready
Definition categories: creation
3. transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
- These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes
Definition categories: change
4. tamper, with the purpose of deception
- cook the books
Similar word(s): fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle
Definition categories: social, cheat, chisel
5. transform by heating
- The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle
Definition categories: change, alter, modify
Sentences with cook as a verb:
- I'm cooking bangers and mash.
- He's in the kitchen, cooking.
- The dinner is cooking on the stove.
- Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.
- I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab one and throw it back.
- Watch this band: they cook!
- Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!
- On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!