cook in WordNet English dictionary

1. someone who cooks food
   cook 
   

1. transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
   "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"
   cook 
   
2. transform by heating
   "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"
   cook 
   
3. prepare for eating by applying heat
   "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
   cook  fix  ready  make  prepare 
   
4. prepare a hot meal
   "My husband doesn't cook"
   cook 
   
5. tamper, with the purpose of deception
   "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"
   fudge  manipulate  fake  falsify  cook  wangle  misrepresent