cook

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.

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."

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

Constant cuckoos cook on every side.