Definitions of cook:

• noun:   someone who cooks food
• noun:   English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
• verb:   transform and make suitable for consumption by heating

  Example: "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"

• verb:   transform by heating

  Example: "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"

• verb:   prepare for eating by applying heat

  Example: "Cook me dinner, please"

• verb:   prepare a hot meal

  Example: "My husband doesn't cook"

• verb:   fake or falsify

  Example: "Cook the books"

• name:  A surname (very common: 1 in 833 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #56)