cook
prepare a hot meal
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,898 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 9,430 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- prepare a hot meal My husband doesn't cook
- prepare for eating by applying heat also: fix, ready, make, prepare Cook me dinner, pleasecan you make me an omelette?
- transform and make suitable for consumption by heating These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes
- tamper, with the purpose of deception also: fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, wangle, misrepresent Fudge the figurescook the books
- transform by heating The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle
noun
- someone who cooks food
- English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779) also: James Cook, Captain Cook, Captain James Cook
cook in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The cook and the chambermaid had already gone.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Molly Scraggs was a cook in a first-rate family, in the most aristocratic quarter of the metropolis.
Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 · Robert Seymour · Chapter 1
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No one saw him save the cook, who vouchsafed him a stately and lugubrious inclination of the head.
The Riverman · Stewart Edward White · Chapter 1
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He lived alone and looked after himself, for he could cook and sew like a woman--at least like the clever ones.
The Torch and Other Tales · Eden Phillpotts · Chapter 1
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The message went the rounds, everybody accepted the invitation, and Elsie's orders for the day to cook and housekeeper, were given accordingly.
Christmas with Grandma Elsie · Martha Finley · Chapter 1