cook

1 someone who cooks food

2 English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779) [syn: James Cook, Captain Cook, Captain James Cook]

1 prepare a hot meal; "My husband doesn't cook"

2 prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please" [syn: fix, ready, make, prepare]

3 transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"

4 transform by heating; "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"

5 fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, wangle, misrepresent]

see cook

English

Proper noun

Cook

1. an English occupational name (surname) for a cook, or a seller of cooked food

Cook may refer to:

• Cooking
  • Chef, a person who cooks food as a profession
  • Cook (profession)
  • Cook (servant), a servant who cooks food for his or her employer
• Cook (surname), a family name (and a list of people with that name)
• Cook (software), a program for directing compilation
• The Cook, a 1918 film starring Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton
• Cook Records, a record label
• COOK Trading, a UK manufacturer and retailer of frozen ready meals
• Cook Group, a manufacturer of medical devices
• Cook (crater), a lunar crater
• Cook or Live in USA, an album by Premiata Forneria Marconi
• Cook, an an unintended solution that spoils a chess problem
• Cook's Champagne, a sparkling wine made by Constellation Brands in the United States

In geography:

• Cook, South Australia, Australia
• Cook, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
• Cook Island, New South Wales, Australia
  • Division of Cook, an Australian House of Representatives electoral district
• Electoral district of Cook, a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral district
• Aoraki/Mount Cook, New Zealand
• Cook Islands, New Zealand
• Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands, UK
• Cook, Minnesota, U.S.
• Cook County, Illinois, U.S.

See also

• Cooke
• Cookham
• Cooktown

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