Read the dictionary definition of cook. All definitions for this word.
1. someone who cooks food
2. English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
3. transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
1. These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes
4. transform by heating
1. The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle
5. prepare for eating by applying heat
1. Cook me dinner, please
2. can you make me an omelette?
3. fix breakfast for the guests, please
6. prepare a hot meal
1. My husband doesn't cook
7. tamper, with the purpose of deception
1. Fudge the figures
2. cook the books
3. falsify the data