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Meaning of 'cook'
Meaning of 'cook' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Cook 
[ 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.
2. Cook [ v. i.]
- To make the noise of the cuckoo. [ v. i.]- To prepare food for the table.
3. Cook [ v. t.]
- To throw. [ v. t.]- To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.
- 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.
Meaning of 'cook' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. cook [ v]
[ v]Meaning (1):
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- prepare for eating by applying heat
Example in sentence:
- can you make me an omelette?;
- Cook me dinner, please;
- fix breakfast for the guests, please
Meaning (2):
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
Example in sentence:
- cook the books;
- falsify the data;
- Fudge the figures
Meaning (3):
- prepare a hot meal
- prepare a hot meal
Example in sentence:
- My husband doesn't cook
Meaning (4):
- transform by heating
- transform by heating
Example in sentence:
- The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle
Meaning (5):
- transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
- transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
Example in sentence:
- These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes
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