Cook

  1. Proper noun.  An English occupational surname for a cook, or a seller of cooked food.
  2. Noun.  (cooking) A person who prepares food for a living.
  3. Noun.  (cooking) The head cook of a manor house.
  4. Verb.  (transitive) To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
  5. Verb.  (intransitive, of a person) To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
  6. Verb.  (intransitive, of food) To become ready for eating by the application of heat.
  7. Verb.  (intransitive, colloquial) To be uncomfortably hot.
  8. Verb.  (transitive) To briefly hold on to a grenade after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.

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