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Cook

verb

(past & past part. cooked; pres. part. cooking)

1.

Prepare a hot meal.

2.

Prepare for eating by applying heat. Synonyms: fix, make, prepare, ready. "Can you make me an omelette?" , "Fix breakfast for the guests, please"

3.

Transform and make suitable for consumption by heating.

4.

Tamper, with the purpose of deception. Synonyms: fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle. "Cook the books" , "Falsify the data"

5.

Transform by heating.

noun

1.

Someone who cooks food.

2.

English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779). Synonyms: Captain Cook, Captain James Cook, James Cook.

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"Cook" Quotes from Famous Books

... case of "penny in the slot." You should reflect that no evasive bird Is half so shy as is your fittest word; And even similes, however wrought, Like hares, before you cook them, must ...

— De Libris: Prose and Verse • Austin Dobson

... were the homes of the colored citizens of the community. An infirmary stood apart for the sick. The old grandams cared for the children. Up yonder at the mansion house Black Mammy held sway in the nursery; Aunt Dinah was the cook; Aunt Rachel carried the housekeeper's keys; while Jane and Ann, the mulatto ladies' maids, flitted about on duty, and Jim and Jack "'tended on young marster and de gemman." Such hospitality as was made possible by that style of living can never ...

— Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War • Mrs. Eugenia Dunlap Potts

... equipment to the homes greatly in need of her. Even if she should choose later to go into shop or store, the State will have gone a long way toward removing the great handicap by having taught her to understand the language of the new land, to care for a room, cook simple food ...

— The Girl and Her Religion • Margaret Slattery

... for soldiers to marry; the old days of "laundresses" had passed away. But the trombone player of the Tenth Infantry band (a young Boston boy) had married a wife, and now a baby had come to them. They could get no quarters, so we took the family in, and, as the wife was an excellent cook, we were able to give many small dinners. The walls of the house being three feet thick, we were never troubled by the trombone practice or the infant's cries. And many a delightful evening we had around the board, with Father ...

— Vanished Arizona - Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman • Martha Summerhayes

... on Friday saying, 'We are starting a central mess for 1,200 men on Monday,' and asking: 'Can you send cooks?' brings as a reply 24 trained women cooks, who roll up their sleeves and cook breakfast for the ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 7, 1916 • Various

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