cook
Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary
See also Cook
Contents |
[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old English cōc, from Latin cocus. Similar forms in the continental Germanic languages (German Koch etc.) represent earlier borrowings.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /kʊk/
- Audio (US)help, file
-
- Rhymes: -ʊk
[edit] Noun
|
Singular |
Plural |
cook (plural cooks)
- A person who prepares food for a living.
[edit] Synonyms
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations
a person who prepares food for a living
|
|
[edit] Verb
|
Infinitive |
Third person singular |
Simple past |
Past participle |
Present participle |
to cook (third-person singular simple present cooks, present participle cooking, simple past and past participle cooked)
- (transitive) To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
- (intransitive) Of a person, to prepare food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
- He's in the kitchen, cooking.
- (intransitive) Of food, to become ready for eating by the application of heat.
- The dinner is cooking on the stove.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To be uncomfortably hot.
- Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.
[edit] Synonyms
- bake
- roast
- boil
- cook up
- concoct
- contrive
- make up
- devise
- steam
- barbecue
- scramble
- braise
- poach
- microwave
- grill
- prepare
- fry
[edit] Translations
prepare (food) for eating
|
|
prepare food
|
become ready for eating
colloquial: be uncomfortably hot
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
