- to prepare (food) by the use of heat, as by boiling, baking, or roasting.
- to subject (anything) to the application of heat.
- to ruin; spoil.
- to process (computer programming code or other digital data) for use in an executable file format.
- to falsify, as accounts: to cook the expense figures.
- to prepare food by the use of heat.
- (of food) to undergo cooking.
- Slang.
- to be full of activity and excitement: Las Vegas cooks around the clock.
- to perform, work, or do in just the right way and with energy and enthusiasm: That new drummer is really cooking tonight. Now you're cooking!
- to be in preparation; develop: Plans for the new factory have been cooking for several years.
- to take place; occur; happen: What's cooking at the club?
- a person who cooks: The restaurant hired a new cook.
- (of a shell or cartridge) to explode or fire without being triggered as a result of overheating in the chamber of the weapon.
- cook up, Informal.
- to concoct or contrive, often dishonestly: She hastily cooked up an excuse.
- to falsify: Someone had obviously cooked up the alibi.
- goose (def. 11).
- to manipulate the financial records of a company, organization, etc., so as to conceal profits, avoid taxes, or present a false financial report to stockholders.
- to hide, especially outdoors, as by crouching down behind a hedge.
- U.S. physician and polar explorer.
- U.S. novelist, dramatist, and poet.
- English navigator and explorer in the South Pacific and Southern Oceans, particularly in the areas of Australia and New Zealand.
- Australian statesman, born in England: prime minister of Australia 1913–14.
- a mountain in New Zealand, on South Island. 12,349 feet (3,764 meters).
- to prepare (food) by the action of heat, as by boiling, baking, etc, or (of food) to become ready for eating through such a process
- to subject or be subjected to the action of intense heat
- to alter or falsify (something, esp figures, accounts, etc)
- to spoil or ruin (something)
- to happen (esp in the phrase what's cooking?)
- to prepare (any of several drugs) by heating
- to play vigorously
- cook someone's goose informal
- to spoil a person's plans
- to bring about someone's ruin, downfall, etc
- a person who prepares food for eating, esp as an occupation
- a mountain in New Zealand, in the South Island, in the Southern Alps: the highest peak in New Zealand. Height: reduced in 1991 by a rockfall from 3764 m (12 349 ft) to 3754 m (12 316 ft)
- a mountain in SE Alaska, in the St Elias Mountains. Height: 4194 m (13 760 ft)
- Captain James . 1728–79, British navigator and explorer: claimed the E coast of Australia for Britain, circumnavigated New Zealand, and discovered several Pacific and Atlantic islands (1768–79)
- Sir Joseph. 1860–1947, Australian statesman, born in England: prime minister of Australia (1913–14)
- Peter (Edward). 1937–95, British comedy actor and writer, noted esp for his partnership (1960–73) with Dudley Moore
- Robin, full name Robert Finlayson Cook . 1946–2005, British Labour politician; foreign secretary (1997–2001), Leader of the House (2001-2003)
- Thomas. 1808–92, British travel agent; innovator of conducted excursions and founder of the travel agents Thomas Cook and Son
