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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.
Slang. to ruin; spoil.
4.
Informal. to falsify, as accounts: to cook the expense figures.
verb (used without object)
5.
to prepare food by the use of heat.
6.
(of food) to undergo cooking.
7.
Slang.
a.
to be full of activity and excitement: Las Vegas cooks around the clock.
b.
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!
c.
to be in preparation; develop: Plans for the new factory have been cooking for several years.
d.
to take place; occur; happen: What's cooking at the club?
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Cook
is always a great word to know.
So is hot seat. Does it mean:
| a highly uncomfortable or embarrassing situation |
| deceptive, exaggerated, or meaningless talk |
noun
Verb phrases8.
a person who cooks: The restaurant hired a new cook.
9.
cook off, (of a shell or cartridge) to explode or fire without being triggered as a result of overheating in the chamber of the weapon.
10.
Idiomscook up, Informal.
a.
to concoct or contrive, often dishonestly: She hastily cooked up an excuse.
b.
to falsify: Someone had obviously cooked up the alibi.
11.
cook one's goose. goose (def. 11).
12.
cook the books, Slang. 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.
Origin:
before 1000; (noun) Middle English cok(e), Old English cōc (compare Old Norse kokkr, German Koch, Dutch kok) < Latin cocus, coquus, derivative of coquere to cook; akin to Greek péptein (see peptic); (v.) late Middle English coken, derivative of the noun
before 1000; (noun) Middle English cok(e), Old English cōc (compare Old Norse kokkr, German Koch, Dutch kok) < Latin cocus, coquus, derivative of coquere to cook; akin to Greek péptein (see peptic); (v.) late Middle English coken, derivative of the noun
Related forms
cook·a·ble, adjective
cook·less, adjective
un·cook·a·ble, adjective
Example Sentences
- Lots of foods take time to prepare regardless of the brilliance and/or tirelessness of the cook.
- Cell phone radiation falls into the same band of nonionizing radio frequency as microwaves used to heat or cook food.
- Prepare all the ingredients beforehand, then cook the paella while guests nibble on tapas and watch the proceedings.
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noun
1.
Frederick Albert, 1865–1940, U.S. physician and polar explorer.
3.
Captain James, 1728–79, English navigator and explorer in the S Pacific, Antarctic Ocean, and along the coasts of Australia and New Zealand.
4.
Sir Joseph, 1860–1947, Australian statesman, born in England: prime minister 1913–14.
5.
Mount. Also called Aorangi. a mountain in New Zealand, on South Island. 12,349 feet (3764 meters).
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World English Dictionary
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
cook
O.E. coc, from V.L. cocus "cook," from L. coquus, from coquere "to cook, prepare food, ripen, digest, turn over in the mind" from PIE base *pekw- "to cook" (cf. Oscan popina "kitchen," Skt. pakvah "cooked," Gk. peptein, Lith. kepti "to bake, roast," O.C.S. pecenu "roasted"). The noun was first; Gmc.
EXPAND languages had no one native term for all types of cooking. The verb is first attested late 14c.; the figurative sense of "to manipulate, falsify, doctor" is from 1630s. To cook with gas is 1930s jive talk.
COLLAPSE
"There is the proverb, the more cooks the worse potage." [Gascoigne, 1575]Related: Cooker (a type of stove, 1884); cookery (1390s); cooking (1640s).
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Cook definition
a person employed to perform culinary service. In early times among the Hebrews cooking was performed by the mistress of the household (Gen. 18:2-6; Judg. 6:19), and the process was very expeditiously performed (Gen. 27:3, 4, 9, 10). Professional cooks were afterwards employed (1 Sam. 8:13; 9:23). Few animals, as a rule, were slaughtered (other than sacrifices), except for purposes of hospitality (Gen. 18:7; Luke 15:23). The paschal lamb was roasted over a fire (Ex. 12:8, 9; 2Chr. 35:13). Cooking by boiling was the usual method adopted (Lev. 8:31; Ex. 16:23). No cooking took place on the Sabbath day (Ex. 35:3).
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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American Heritage
Idioms & Phrases
cook
In addition to the idioms beginning with cook, also see chief cook and bottlewasher; short order (cook); too many cooks spoil the broth; what's cooking.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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