1. (of food) combine or process (e.g. heat) to make ready for eating
   "Cook me dinner, please";
   - fix [informal], ready, make, prepare
    
2. Transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
   "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"
    
3. Transform by heating
   "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"
    
4. [informal] Tamper, with the purpose of deception
   "cook the books";
   - fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, wangle [informal], misrepresent, spoof [informal]

1. Someone who cooks food
   "The cook prepared a delicious three-course meal for the dinner party"

1. English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
   - James Cook, Captain Cook, Captain James Cook

Derived forms: cooked, cooks, Cooks, cooking

Type of: alter, change, change integrity, cheat, chisel [informal], make from scratch, modify, navigator, skilled worker, trained worker

Encyclopedia: Cook, Peter