Cook (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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verb (used with object)
  1. to prepare (food) by the use of heat, as by boiling, baking, or roasting.
  2. to subject (anything) to the application of heat.
  3. to ruin; spoil.
  4. to process (computer programming code or other digital data) for use in an executable file format.
  5. to falsify, as accounts: to cook the expense figures.
verb (used without object)
  1. to prepare food by the use of heat.
  2. (of food) to undergo cooking.
  3. 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?
noun
  1. a person who cooks: The restaurant hired a new cook.
Verb Phrases
  1. (of a shell or cartridge) to explode or fire without being triggered as a result of overheating in the chamber of the weapon.
  2. cook up, Informal.
    • to concoct or contrive, often dishonestly: She hastily cooked up an excuse.
    • to falsify: Someone had obviously cooked up the alibi.
Idioms
  1. goose (def. 11).
  2. 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.
verb (used without object) Scot.
  1. to hide, especially outdoors, as by crouching down behind a hedge.
noun
  1. U.S. physician and polar explorer.
  2. U.S. novelist, dramatist, and poet.
  3. English navigator and explorer in the South Pacific and Southern Oceans, particularly in the areas of Australia and New Zealand.
  4. Australian statesman, born in England: prime minister of Australia 1913–14.
  5. a mountain in New Zealand, on South Island. 12,349 feet (3,764 meters).
verb
  1. 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
  2. to subject or be subjected to the action of intense heat
  3. to alter or falsify (something, esp figures, accounts, etc)
  4. to spoil or ruin (something)
  5. to happen (esp in the phrase what's cooking?)
  6. to prepare (any of several drugs) by heating
  7. to play vigorously
  8. cook someone's goose informal
    • to spoil a person's plans
    • to bring about someone's ruin, downfall, etc
noun
  1. a person who prepares food for eating, esp as an occupation
noun Mount Cook
  1. 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)
  2. a mountain in SE Alaska, in the St Elias Mountains. Height: 4194 m (13 760 ft)
noun
  1. 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)
  2. Sir Joseph. 1860–1947, Australian statesman, born in England: prime minister of Australia (1913–14)
  3. Peter (Edward). 1937–95, British comedy actor and writer, noted esp for his partnership (1960–73) with Dudley Moore
  4. Robin, full name Robert Finlayson Cook . 1946–2005, British Labour politician; foreign secretary (1997–2001), Leader of the House (2001-2003)
  5. Thomas. 1808–92, British travel agent; innovator of conducted excursions and founder of the travel agents Thomas Cook and Son
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