Dictionary Entry
cook
cook is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make the noise of the cuckoo. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To make the noise of the cuckoo.
- 2transitive verb
To throw.
- 3noun
One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.
- 4noun
A fish, the European striped wrasse.
- 5transitive verb
To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.
- 6transitive verb
To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.
- 7intransitive verb
To prepare food for the table.
- 8noun
someone who cooks food
- 9noun
English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
- 10verb
transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
"These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"
- 11verb
transform by heating
"The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"
- 12verb
prepare for eating by applying heat
"Cook me dinner, please"
"can you make me an omelette?"
- 13verb
prepare a hot meal
"My husband doesn't cook"
- 14verb
tamper, with the purpose of deception
"Fudge the figures"
"cook the books"
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