Usually means: Prepare food using heat application.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cook, cook: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Cook, cook: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cook: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cook: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Cook, cook: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cook, cook: Wordnik
  7. cook: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cook, cook: Wiktionary
  9. cook: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cook: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cook: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cook, cook: Dictionary.com
  13. cook (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cook: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cook (Brentford cricketer), Cook (dog), Cook (domestic worker), Cook (profession), Cook (surname), Cook, The Cook (Arcimboldo), The Cook (film), The Cook: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cook: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cook: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cook: Rhymezone
  19. cook: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cook: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. cook: Free Dictionary
  22. cook: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Cook: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. cook: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cook: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. COOK: Acronym Finder
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  4. cook: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cook: Easton Bible

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cook (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. cook, cook, cook, cook, cook: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Cook: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. cook: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Paper Making (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (cooking) A person who prepares food.
noun:  (cooking) The head cook of a manor house.
noun:  (cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
noun:  (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
noun:  (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
noun:  A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
noun:  (chess) An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.
verb:  (transitive or intransitive) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
verb:  (intransitive) To be cooked.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To execute by electric chair.
verb:  (transitive, military slang) To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
verb:  To concoct or prepare.
verb:  To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
verb:  (intransitive, jazz, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
verb:  (intransitive, music, slang) To play music vigorously.
verb:  (intransitive, slang, humorous) To proceed with some advantageous plan or course of action; to be successful.
verb:  (slang, derogatory, Australia) To develop insane or fringe ideas.
verb:  (obsolete, rare, intransitive) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
verb:  (UK, dialect, obsolete) To throw.
noun:  (countable) An English surname originating as an occupation for a cook or seller of cooked food. Famously held by James Cook, English captain and explorer of the Pacific Ocean, and for whom the Cook Islands, Cook Strait and Mount Cook were named.
noun:  A placename:
noun:  A locale in the United States.
noun:  A city in Minnesota; named for railroad official Wirth Cook.
noun:  A village in Nebraska; named for landowner Andrew Cook.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Ohio; named for landowner Matthew S. Cook.
noun:  A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia; named for James Cook.
noun:  The Shire of Cook, a local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia.
noun:  A ghost town in South Australia, Australia; named for Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia.
noun:  A river in New Zealand.
noun:  An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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