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Meaning of cook

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cook

Pronunciation:/kuːk//kuːk//kuːk/

noun

Definitions

  1. A person who prepares food.

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

  2. The head cook of a manor house

  3. The degree or quality of cookedness of food

  4. One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

    Example: Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.

cook

Pronunciation:/kuːk//kuːk//kuːk/

verb

Definitions

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

    Example: I'm cooking bangers and mash.

  2. To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

    Example: He's in the kitchen, cooking.

  3. To be cooked.

    Example: The dinner is cooking on the stove.

  4. To be uncomfortably hot.

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