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cook
/ koŏk/
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v.
1. [tr.]
prepare (food, a dish, or a meal) by combining and heating the ingredients in various ways:
shall I cook dinner tonight? |
[intr.]
I told you I could cook.
∎ [intr.]
(of food) be heated so that the condition required for eating is reached:
while the rice is cooking, add the saffron to the stock.
∎ (cook something down)
heat food and cause it to thicken and reduce in volume.
∎ [intr.] (cook down)
(of food being cooked) be reduced in volume in this way.
∎ (be cooking) inf.
be happening or planned:
what's cooking on the alternative fuels front?
2. [tr.] inf.
alter dishonestly; falsify:
a narcotics team who cooked the evidence.
∎ (be cooked)
be in an inescapably bad situation:
if I can't talk to him, I'm cooked.
3. [intr.] inf.
perform or proceed vigorously or well:
the band used to get up on the bandstand and really cook.
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n.
a person who prepares and cooks food, esp. as a job or in a specified way:
I'm a good cook.
PHRASES:
cook the books inf.
alter facts or figures dishonestly or illegally.PHRASAL VERBS:
cook something up
concoct a story, excuse, or plan, esp. an ingenious or devious one. DERIVATIVES:
cook·a·ble
adj.
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Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
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Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
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Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
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