to cook

Examples

• All

• Conversely, rice requires less time and fuel to cook, which represents significant savings for poor households.

  Academic text (2008)

• I would love to cook better meals, learn to cook.

  Alfie Deyes Vlogs

• OK, your date wants to cook for you on their first date.

  The Drew Barrymore Show

• And what do you like to cook, Daniel Stuff?

• What are you two cooking up?

  The Front Page (1974)

• Try to reduce how much salt you add when cooking and at the table.

  Academic text (2012)

• Yeah, we're going to have Jada cook, no question.

• Although Sarah does not cook complex meals, she can arrange her own lunch and snacks.

  Academic text (2012)

• She just cooked us dinner last week.

  Shooting Stars (2023)

• I love to cook pasta on the weekends for my family.

Synonyms

M

to make

vsto cook

∞ 1.0

To create something by putting parts together

is focused on heating food rather than creating objects or art

P

to prepare

vsto cook

374 1.0

Cook food so it is ready to eat

is the act of heating food by boiling baking roasting or frying

F

to fix

vsto cook

• Informal

154 2.8

To prepare food or be about to do something

is specifically about heating food rather than general readiness

C

to cook up

vsto cook

20 3.2

Prepare a quick meal by mixing ingredients you have

is the general process of heating food without speed or inventiveness

Idioms

C

to cook up a storm

• Informal

2 4.6

To make a large amount of food for many people with great energy

C

to cook someone's goose

• Informal

8.8

Make someone lose their chance of success

Phrasal Verbs

C

to cook up

• Informal

37 5.6

Invent a story or excuse to trick people

C

to cook up

20 3.2

Prepare a quick meal by mixing ingredients you have

C

to cook at home

2 1.0

Make meals in your own home to eat

C

to cook evenly

2 2.5

Heat all parts of food so they are done at the same time

C

to cook out

• US

1 3.5

Make food outside on a grill or open fire

C

to cook up a plan

• Informal

1 4.4

To think of a clever or secret plan to do something

Compounds

F

fry cook

• US

4 2.5

A person who makes food in hot oil at a restaurant or diner

P

pastry cook

1 2.7

A person who makes cakes, pies and other sweet baked foods

C

Cook Strait

4.9

A narrow sea channel between New Zealand's North Island and South Island

M

Mount Cook lily

• New Zealand

8.6

A New Zealand plant with large white flowers that comes back each year in mountains

How Hot

to boil

269 1.0

to fry

283 1.0

to cook

∞ 1.0

to simmer

92 2.5

Surface Forms

Etymology