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Cook

verb

(past & past part. cooked; pres. part. cooking)

1.

Prepare a hot meal.

2.

Prepare for eating by applying heat. Synonyms: fix, make, prepare, ready. "Can you make me an omelette?" , "Fix breakfast for the guests, please"

3.

Transform and make suitable for consumption by heating.

4.

Tamper, with the purpose of deception. Synonyms: fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle. "Cook the books" , "Falsify the data"

5.

Transform by heating.

noun

1.

Someone who cooks food.

2.

English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779). Synonyms: Captain Cook, Captain James Cook, James Cook.

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"Cook" Quotes from Famous Books

... greater comfort by adopting something of our civilization. You might improve your dwellings, hangings round your walls would keep out the bitter winds, well made doors are in winter very preferable to the skins which hang at your entrance, and I do think that a Carthaginian cook might, with advantage, give lessons to the tribes as to preparations of food; but beyond that I think that you have the best ...

— The Young Carthaginian - A Story of The Times of Hannibal • G.A. Henty

... to Leavenworth, find Cook, and have him plant what you have. Haight will go to Chicago and know what to do, while I—well- -I am going south for ...

— Jim Cummings • Frank Pinkerton

... after tea, to the De Witts and Prentices, and send Thomas with a note to the Lowders. Sophie has done her part in shorter time than that, very often; and I don't believe we should be starved, if she only gave half an hour's notice to the cook." ...

— Richard Vandermarck • Miriam Coles Harris

... satisfactorily two of the following dishes as may be directed: Porridge, bacon, hunter's stew; or skin and cook a rabbit or pluck and cook a bird. Also "make a damper" of half a pound of flour or a "twist" baked on ...

— Outdoor Sports and Games • Claude H. Miller

... of Pineville on Rainbow River, and Daddy Bunker's real estate office was about a mile from his home. Besides the family of the six little Bunkers and their father and mother, there was Norah O'Grady, the cook, and there was also Jerry Simms, the man who cut the grass, cleaned the automobile, and sprinkled the lawn in summer and took ashes out of the furnace ...

— Six Little Bunkers at Grandpa Ford's • Laura Lee Hope

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