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Noun cook has 2 senses
- cook - someone who cooks food
--1 is a kind of skilled worker, trained worker
--1 has particulars:
- 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
- cook - prepare a hot meal; "My husband doesn't cook"
--1 is one way to create from raw material, create from raw stuff
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- 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
Sample sentence:
The chefs cook the vegetables
- cook - transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"
--3 is one way to change integrity
Sample sentence:
The chefs cook the vegetables
- cook - transform by heating; "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"
--4 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- 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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