cook

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/kʊk/

verb 7noun 5name 5

Collocations

(verb.)

ADV

thoroughly, well

The potatoes need to cook thoroughly before we can mash them for dinner.

evenly, gently, slowly

The rice needs to cook slowly for at least twenty minutes to become tender.

quickly

PHRASES

be cooked through

The chicken needs another ten minutes to be cooked through completely.

(noun.)

ADJ

excellent, good

My mother is an excellent cook and everyone loves coming to our house for dinner.

amateur, professional

My father is an amateur cook who loves experimenting with new recipes on weekends.

Definitions

noun

A person who prepares food.

I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.

The head cook of a manor house.

The degree or quality of cookedness of food.

The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.

One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.

By late October, the pressure on the Dark Arrows' ecstasy cook had eased. Other suppliers had moved in with product.

verb

To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.

I'm cooking bangers and mash.

He's in the kitchen, cooking.

To smelt.

Your suggestion makes sense. You cook iron with coal to get... iron. The coal is expended, where does it go? inside the iron to turn it into steel in real life. I approve

To be cooked.

The dinner is cooking on the stove.

To be uncomfortably hot.

Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.

To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.

You would die from what we might call "extremely acute radiation poisoning" – that is, you would be cooked.

"What's coming?" "Dunno yet. Cindy! Active scanning! Pulse hard, but don't cook any friendlies." "We have sensors that can cook people?" "Another reason why warship combat is not an indoor sport."

verb

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

Constant cuckoos cook on every side.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

verb — prepare for eating by applying heat

verb — tamper, with the purpose of deception

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

cook the books

To manipulate accounting information, especially illegally.

Enron Corp., once a major U.S. corporation, is now famous for cooking the books.

cook someone's goose

To spoil one's plans or hope of success.

I like this Goose Lake country better than any I've seen east of the Cascade range, and if some mishap don't cook my goose, I hope to give you a good account of it, if not of mysel

cook up a storm

To do a large amount of cooking at once; to prepare a great deal of cooked food.

When I started to lose weight, she started cooking up a storm.

there's more than one way to cook an egg

Synonym of there's more than one way to skin a cat.

Example Bank

I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.

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Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.

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By late October, the pressure on the Dark Arrows' ecstasy cook had eased. Other suppliers had moved in with product.

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I'm cooking bangers and mash.

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He's in the kitchen, cooking.

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You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, cook is marked as slang, figuratively, obsolete, rare, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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