Noun

• S: (n) cook (someone who cooks food)
• S: (n) Cook, James Cook, Captain Cook, Captain James Cook (English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779))

Verb

• S: (v) cook (prepare a hot meal) "My husband doesn't cook"
• S: (v) cook, fix, ready, make, prepare (prepare for eating by applying heat) "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
• S: (v) cook (transform and make suitable for consumption by heating) "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"
• S: (v) fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent (tamper, with the purpose of deception) "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"
• S: (v) cook (transform by heating) "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"