cook

/kuk/
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cook

The cook prepares a fresh vegetable soup in the kitchen.

Definition

  1. Verb:

    • To prepare food for eating by applying heat: This is the most common meaning, involving the use of methods like boiling, baking, frying, or grilling to make food edible or more palatable.
    • To undergo the process of being prepared by heat: When food itself is the subject, it means to be heated until ready to eat.
    • To alter or falsify something dishonestly: In informal contexts, it means to tamper with or fabricate information, such as accounts or data.

  2. Noun:

    • A person who prepares and cooks food: This refers to someone whose job or role is to cook, either professionally or at home.
Examples of Usage

  • Verb:

    • She will cook dinner for the family tonight.
    • Let the rice cook for another ten minutes.
    • The accountant was accused of trying to cook the books.

  • Noun:

    • He is an excellent cook and makes delicious pastries.
    • The restaurant hired a new head cook.
Advanced Usage

  • "to cook up": To invent or concoct something, often a story, plan, or excuse.

    • He had to cook up a believable excuse for being late.

  • "to cook the books": An idiom meaning to falsify financial records.

    • The investigation revealed that the company had been cooking the books for years.
Variants and Related Words

  • Cooker (n): An appliance used for cooking, such as a stove or rice cooker.

    • She bought a new pressure cooker.

  • Cookery (n): The art, practice, or skill of preparing and cooking food.

    • She is taking a cookery class.

  • Cooked (adj): (Of food) having been prepared by heating. Also used informally to mean exhausted.

    • The cooked vegetables were served.
    • After the marathon, I was completely cooked.
Synonyms
  • Prepare (v): To make something ready, especially food.
  • Falsify (v): To alter information deceitfully (for the dishonest meaning).
  • Chef (n): A professional cook (more specific than the general noun 'cook').
Related Phrasal Verbs

  • Cook off: (Of ammunition or explosives) to explode accidentally due to excessive heat.

    • The soldiers were warned that the ammunition could cook off in the fire.

  • Cook down: To reduce the volume of a liquid by boiling.

    • You need to cook down the sauce until it thickens.
Related Idioms

  • Too many cooks spoil the broth: A proverb meaning that if too many people are involved in a task, it may not be done well.

    • We need one clear leader for this project; too many cooks spoil the broth.

  • Cook someone's goose: To ruin someone's plans or chances of success.

    • His arrest really cooked his goose for the election.
cook

The cook prepares a fresh vegetable soup in the kitchen.

Noun
  1. English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
  2. someone who cooks food
Verb
  1. transform by heating
    • The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle
  2. tamper, with the purpose of deception
    • Fudge the figures
    • cook the books
    • falsify the data
  3. transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
    • These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes
  4. prepare for eating by applying heat
    • Cook me dinner, please
    • can you make me an omelette?
    • fix breakfast for the guests, please
  5. prepare a hot meal
    • My husband doesn't cook

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