Overview of noun cook

The noun cook has 2 senses

• cook -- (someone who cooks food)


• 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))

Overview of verb cook

The verb cook has 5 senses

• cook -- (prepare a hot meal; "My husband doesn't cook")


• 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")


• cook -- (transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes")


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


• cook -- (transform by heating; "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle")