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cook

 
Noun cook has 2 senses
  1. cook - someone who cooks food
    --1 is a kind of
    skilled worker, trained worker
    --1 has particulars:
     chef; cookie, cooky; fry cook; preserver; roaster; seasoner; Farmer, Fannie Farmer, Fannie Merritt Farmer
    Derived forms: verb cook1, verb cook2, verb cook3
  2. 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)
    --2 is a kind of navigator
Verb cook has 5 senses
  1. cook - prepare a hot meal; "My husband doesn't cook"
    --1 is one way to
    create from raw material, create from raw stuff
    Derived forms: noun cook1, noun cooking1, noun cookery1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
  2. 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"
    --2 is one way to create from raw material, create from raw stuff
    Derived forms: noun cook1, noun cooker1, noun cooking1, noun cookery1
    Sample sentence:
    The chefs cook the vegetables
  3. cook - transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"
    --3 is one way to
    change integrity
    Derived forms: noun cook1, noun cooking1, noun cookery1
    Sample sentence:
    The chefs cook the vegetables
  4. cook - transform by heating; "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"
    --4 is one way to
    change, alter, modify
    Derived form: noun cooker1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  5. fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent - fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"
    --5 is one way to cheat, chisel
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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