Main entry: cook
Definition: someone who cooks food
Main entry: Cook, James Cook, Captain Cook, Captain James Cook
Definition: English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
Main entry: cook
Definition: transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
Usage: These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes
Main entry: cook
Definition: transform by heating
Usage: The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle
Main entry: ready, prepare, make, cook, fix
Definition: prepare for eating by applying heat
Usage: Cook me dinner, please; can you make me an omelette?; fix breakfast for the guests, please
Main entry: cook
Definition: prepare a hot meal
Usage: My husband doesn't cook
Main entry: fudge, fake, falsify, manipulate, cook, misrepresent, wangle
Definition: tamper, with the purpose of deception
Usage: Fudge the figures; cook the books; falsify the data