Prepare food, usually on a stove

noun

1. A person who prepares food for eating
2. A technical or industrial process comparable to cooking food

verb

1. To prepare (food) for eating by a heating process

   "Cook the vegetables over low heat for 10 minutes."

2. Concoct, fabricate
3. To alter (something, such as records) with the intention of deceiving or misleading falsify, doctor

   "The point is that every country's numbers are the result of a specific set of testing and accounting regimes. Everyone is cooking the data, one way or another."

4. To subject (something) to the action of heat or fire during preparation

   "Agents discovered a recipe for cooking meth at his lab …"

5. to prepare (food) for eating by a heating process
6. concoct, fabricate —usually used with up
7. to alter (something, such as records) with the intention of deceiving or misleading : falsify, doctor
8. To prepare food for eating especially by means of heat

   "We're too busy to cook tonight."

9. To undergo the action of being cooked

   "The rice is cooking now."

10. Occur, happen

    "She tried to find out what was cooking in the committee."

11. To perform, do, or proceed well

    "The jazz quartet was cooking along."

12. to prepare (food) for eating by a heating process
13. concoct, fabricate —usually used with up
14. to alter (something, such as records) with the intention of deceiving or misleading : falsify, doctor

biographical name

1. James 1728–1779 English navigator and explorer

noun

1. An unripened cheese made from curd that has been cooked to a soft consistency

noun

1. A cooking competition

verb

1. To fire as a result of overheating

noun

1. A rapid or cursory survey or review

idiomatic phrase

1. To alter official accounting records in order to deceive or mislead

   "Congress cooked the books with phony spending cuts and accounting gimmickry to appear to reduce the federal deficit."

geographical name

1. Mountain 12,316 feet (3754 meters) high in the west central part of the South Island, New Zealand; highest peak in the Southern Alps and in New Zealand

geographical name

1. Inlet of the Pacific in southern Alaska west of the Kenai Peninsula