cook

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English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728 1779)

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To make the noise of the cuckoo.

Noun
someone who cooks food

Noun
English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)

Verb
transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"

Verb
transform by heating; "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"

Verb
prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"

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Verb
prepare a hot meal; "My husband doesn''t cook"

Verb
fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"

v. i.
To make the noise of the cuckoo.

v. t.
To throw.

n.
One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.

n.
A fish, the European striped wrasse.

v. t.
To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.

v. t.
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.

v. i.
To prepare food for the table.

Cook

Cook , v. i. [Of imitative origin.] To make the noise of the cuckoo. [Obs. or R.]

Constant cuckoos cook on every side.

Cook

Cook , v. t. [Etymol. unknown.] To throw. [Prov.Eng.] "Cook me that ball." Grose.

Cook

Cook , n. [AS. c'd3c, fr. l. cocus, coquus, coquus, fr. coquere to cook; akin to Gr. , Skr. pac, and to E. apricot, biscuit, concoct, dyspepsia, precocious. Cf. Pumpkin.] 1. One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating. 2. (Zo'94l.) A fish, the European striped wrasse.

Cook

Cook, v. t. [imp. & p.p. Cooked ; p.pr & vb.n. Cooking.] 1. To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat. 2. 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. [Colloq.]

They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different.

Cook

Cook , v. i. To prepare food for the table.

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

To throw.

One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.

To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.

To prepare food for the table.

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Usage Examples

For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator.

I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.

And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food.

After my pregnancy, I discovered I have an allergy to yeast. Problem is, all the food I love has yeast in it. So I have to relearn how to cook.

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Other Usage Examples

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

Even cooking at home, the difference between my wife cooking and me cooking is major. When my wife cooks, the kitchen looks like a disaster. When I cook it's completely clean and organized and it doesn't look like anyone has been cooking in there.

I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do.

However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

I cook all my meals at home.

I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.

I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.

I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.