1.  cook(n = noun.person) - someone who cooks food;
is a kind of skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker
has particulars: chef, cookie, cooky, fry cook, preserver, roaster, seasoner, fannie farmer, fannie merritt farmer, farmer
Derived forms verb cook₃, verb cook₂, verb cook₁

2.  cook(n = noun.person) captain cook, captain james cook, james cook - English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779);
is a kind of navigator

1.  cook(v = verb.creation) - prepare a hot meal; "My husband doesn't cook"
is one way to create from raw material, create from raw stuff
Derived forms noun cook₁, noun cookery₁, noun cooking₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s

2.  cook(v = verb.creation) fix, make, prepare, ready - prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
is one way to create from raw material, create from raw stuff
Derived forms noun cook₁, noun cooker₁, noun cookery₁, noun cooking₁
Sample sentences: The chefs cook the vegetables

3.  cook(v = verb.change) - transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"
is one way to change integrity
Derived forms noun cook₁, noun cookery₁, noun cooking₁
Sample sentences: The chefs cook the vegetables

4.  cook(v = verb.social) fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle - tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"
is one way to cheat, chisel
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

5.  cook(v = verb.change) - transform by heating; "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"
is one way to alter, change, modify
Derived form noun cooker₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

   To make the noise of the cuckoo. [1913 Webster]
"Constant cuckoos cook on every side." [1913 Webster]

   To throw. Grose. [1913 Webster]

1.  One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating. [1913 Webster]

2.  A fish, the European striped wrasse. [1913 Webster]

1.  To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat. [1913 Webster]

2.  To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account. [1913 Webster]
"They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different." [1913 Webster]

   To prepare food for the table. [1913 Webster]

cook, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. prepare (food) by heating it.
2 intr. (of food) undergo cooking.
3 tr. colloq. falsify (accounts etc.); alter to produce a desired result.
4 tr. sl. ruin, spoil.
5 tr. (esp. as cooked adj.) Brit. sl. fatigue, exhaust.
6 tr. & intr. US colloq. do or proceed successfully.
7 intr. (as be cooking) colloq. be happening or about to happen (went to find out what was cooking).
--n. a person who cooks, esp. professionally or in a specified way (a good cook).

Idiom:
cook-chill
1 the process of cooking and refrigerating food ready for reheating at a later time.
2 (attrib.) (of food) prepared in this way. cook a person's goose ruin a person's chances. cook up colloq. invent or concoct (a story, excuse, etc.).

Derivative:
cookable adj. & n.

Etymology:
OE coc f. pop.L cocus for L coquus

VB  improve, be better, become better, get better, mend, amend, advance, ascend, increase, fructify, ripen, mature, pick up, come about, rally, take a favorable turn, turn over a new leaf, turn the corner, raise one's head, sow one's wild oats, recover, be better, be improved by, turn to right account, turn to good account, turn to best account, profit by, reap the benefit of, make good use of, make capital out of, place to good account, render better, improve, mend, amend, better, ameliorate, meliorate, correct, decrassify, improve upon, refine upon, rectify, enrich, mellow, elaborate, fatten, promote, cultivate, advance, forward, enhance, bring forward, bring on, foster, invigorate, touch up, rub up, brush up, furbish up, bolster up, vamp up, brighten up, warm up, polish, cook, make the most of, set off to advantage, prune, repair, put in order, review, revise, make corrections, make improvements, doctor, purify, relieve, refresh, infuse new blood into, recruit, reform, remodel, reorganize, new model, view in a new light, think better of, appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober, palliate, mitigate, lessen an evil.

VB  prepare, get ready, make ready, make preparations, settle preliminaries, get up, sound the note of preparation, set in order, put in order, forecast, prepare the ground, plow the ground, dress the ground, till the soil, cultivate the soil, predispose, sow the seed, lay a train, dig a mine, lay the groundwork, fix the groundwork, lay the basis, fix the basis, lay the foundations, fix the foundations, dig the foundations, erect the scaffolding, lay the first stone, roughhew, cut out work, block out, hammer out, lick into shape, elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity, nurture, hatch, cook, brew, temper, anneal, smelt, barbecue, infumate, maturate, equip, arm, man, fit-out, fit up, furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge, dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up, refurbish, sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune, whet the knife, whet the sword, wind up, screw up, adjust, put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness, pack, train, inure, breed, prepare for, rehearse, make provision for, take steps, take measures, take precautions, provide, provide against, beat up for recruits, open the door to, set one's house in order, make all snug, clear the decks, clear for action, close one's ranks, shuffle the cards, prepare oneself, serve an apprenticeship, lay oneself out for, get into harness, gird up one's loins, buckle on one's armor, reculer pour mieux sauter, prime and load, shoulder arms, get the steam up, put the horses to, guard against, make sure against, forearm, make sure, prepare for the evil day, have a rod in pickle, provide against a rainy day, feather one's nest, lay in provisions, make investments, keep on foot, be prepared, be ready, hold oneself in readiness, keep one's powder dry, lie in wait for, anticipate, principiis obstare, veniente occurrere morbo.

N  servant, subject, liegeman, servant, retainer, follower, henchman, servitor, domestic, menial, help, lady help, employe, attache, official, retinue, suite, cortege, staff, court, attendant, squire, usher, page, donzel, footboy, train bearer, cup bearer, waiter, lapster, butler, livery servant, lackey, footman, flunky, flunkey, valet, valet de chambre, equerry, groom, jockey, hostler, ostler, tiger, orderly, messenger, cad, gillie, herdsman, swineherd, barkeeper, bartender, bell boy, boots, boy, counterjumper, khansamah, khansaman, khitmutgar, yardman, bailiff, castellan, seneschal, chamberlain, major-domo, groom of the chambers, secretary, under secretary, assistant secretary, clerk, subsidiary, agent, subaltern, underling, understrapper, man, maid, maidservant, handmaid, confidente, lady's maid, abigail, soubrette, amah, biddy, nurse, bonne, ayah, nursemaid, nursery maid, house maid, parlor maid, waiting maid, chamber maid, kitchen maid, scullery maid, femme de chambre, femme fille, camarista, chef de cuisine, cordon bleu, cook, scullion, Cinderella, potwalloper, maid of all work, servant of all work, laundress, bedmaker, journeyman, charwoman, bearer, chokra, gyp (Cambridge), hamal, scout (Oxford), serf, vassal, slave, negro, helot, bondsman, bondswoman, bondslave, ame damnee, odalisque, ryot, adscriptus gleboe, villian, villein, beadsman, bedesman, sizar, pensioner, pensionary, client, dependant, dependent, hanger on, satellite, parasite, led captain, protege, ward, hireling, mercenary, puppet, tool, creature, badge of slavery, bonds, in the train of, in one's pay, in one's employ, at one's call, in bonds.

VB  heat, warm, chafe, stive, foment, make hot, sun oneself, sunbathe, go up in flames, burn to the ground (flame), fire, set fire to, set on fire, kindle, enkindle, light, ignite, strike a light, apply the match to, apply the torch to, rekindle, relume, fan the flame, add fuel to the flame, poke the fire, stir the fire, blow the fire, make a bonfire of, melt, thaw, fuse, liquefy, burn, inflame, roast, toast, fry, grill, singe, parch, bake, torrefy, scorch, brand, cauterize, sear, burn in, corrode, char, calcine, incinerate, smelt, scorify, reduce to ashes, burn to a cinder, commit to the flames, consign to the flames, boil, digest, stew, cook, seethe, scald, parboil, simmer, do to rags, take fire, catch fire, blaze.

VB  be false, be a liar, speak falsely, tell a lie, lie, fib, lie like a trooper, swear false, forswear, perjure oneself, bear false witness, misstate, misquote, miscite, misreport, misrepresent, belie, falsify, pervert, distort, put a false construction upon (misinterpret), prevaricate, equivocate, quibble, palter, palter to the understanding, repondre en Normand, trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose, garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to, give a gloss, put a gloss, put false coloring upon, color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider, varnish right and puzzle wrong, exaggerate, blague, invent, fabricate, trump up, get up, force, fake, hatch, concoct, romance, cry 'wolf!', dissemble, dissimulate, feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe, play possum, play false, play a double game, coquet, act a part, play a part, affect, simulate, pass off for, counterfeit, sham, make a show of, malinger, say the grapes are sour, cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours, put on the mask, clean the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror, hand out false colors, hold out false colors, sail under false colors, commend the poisoned chalice to the lips, ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces, deceive.

captain cook, captain james cook, cook out, cook strait, cook up, fry cook, james cook, mount cook lily, pastry cook