Word Type

Verb

Proper Noun

Noun

The word "cook" can be used as verb, proper noun and noun.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

kitchen restaurant

Capable Of

add egg add ingrediants add salt to dish bake bread bake cake ball melon bone cooked chicken bone fish bone fish to cook bone roast bone turkey bread chicken bread chicken breast bread chicken breasts bread chicken cutlets bread cutlet bread fiash bread filet bread fish bread fish fillets bread piece of meat bread porkchop bread shrimp bring pot to boil brown chicken brown chicken in skillet brown ground beef brown hamburger brown meat brown onions burn dinner burn food butter piece of toast butter toast butter vegetables buy fresh vegetables chop vegetables coat skillet with shortening cook dinner cook food cook foods cook lasagne cook meal cover pan of food cut cheese cut string beans decide when to serve dinner double recipe dress turkey eye baking follow recipie forget to turn off stove glass dessert let potatoes to boil make good desserts measure cup of flour measure flour measure ingrediants measure ingredients measure water open can perfect recipe prepare gourmet meal prepare meal prepare steak quarter pie quarter pizza ready chicken ready meal return with order ring bell ring dinner bell roll pie crust salt dish salt food salt soup salt stew season broth season dish season fish with lemon season food season food with spice season meal season meal with spices season roast season salmon fillet season soup season steak season stew separate eggs separate yolk from egg serve pork with beans smoke salmon stock kitchen stock supplies stock up on canned goods store food in refridgerator taste food prepare taste sauce thin soup with strainer use oven to cook warm food wash vegetable

Coordinate Terms

chef cookeress cookess culinary artist kitchen maid line cook magirist magirologist prep cook scullery maid sous-chef

Defined As

singular of cooks

Derived Terms

Cook County Cook Inlet Cook Islands Cook Peninsula Cook Strait Cook reduction Cook's Green Cook's theorem Cook's tour Cook-Levin theorem Cooks Gap Cooks Hill Cooks Myalls McCook Point Cook Weiss-Cook reaction autocook chief cook and bottle washer chief cook and bottle-washer cold cook cook back cook book cook car cook out cook pot cook someone's goose cook tent cook the books cook through cook up cook-chill cook-chilled cook-chilling cook-off cook-tent cook-up cookability cookable cookaholic cookbook cookdom cookee cooker cookery cookfire cookhouse cookie cooking cooking apple cooking box cooking lager cooking on gas cooking plate cooking pot cooking sherry cooking show cooking soda cooking spray cooking torch cooking utensil cooking with gas cooking-pot cookish cookless cookline cookmaid cookout cookpot cookroom cookset cookshack cookshed cookshop cookstove cooktent cooktop cookware freezer cooking fry cook head cook and bottle washer head cook and bottle-washer home-cook home-cooked microcook miscook noncook now you're cooking outcook overcook parcook pastry cook pastrycook plain cook precook recook red-cook short-order cook slow-cook someone's goose is cooked son of a sea-cook subcook supercook there's more than one way to cook an egg uncook undercook undercook what's cooking

Etymologically Related To

chuck

Context

cooking dialect jazz music slang uk

First Subevents

consider menu gather ingredients gather ingredients before starting gather what you'll need get ingredients having fire heat up oven look in refrigorator wash hands

Last Subevents

clean up kitchen clean up mess eat serve food stir wash up

Prerequisites

buy cookbook buy food buy ingredients decide what want to cook find source of heat gather ingredients get out cookbook get out cooking utensils grab pan have food have ingredients have ingredients to cook have kitchen have oven have recipe book have source of heat make popcorn measure up ingredients mix ingrediants not spit in pot prepare food prepare raw food first read recipe turn on stove use kitchen use pan want to eat wash hands wear apron

Has Property

important in french culture important in italian culture

Subevents

add salt amaze friends burn food burning thumb burning yourself cooking odors cut food eating what cook getting fed make hot food measure ingredients might boil water might burn food might prepare meal mix ingredients oven explodes over seasoning food read directions turn on oven or stove use spices wear hair net

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

alter change change integrity cheat chisel concoct contrive create from raw material create from raw stuff devise make up modify plan prepare skilled worker trained worker

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

Troponyms bake barbecue blanch boil braise broil fry grill microwave parbake parboil parcook parfry poach roast scald seethe simmer steam stew toast

Type Of (IsA)

concoct food because tastes better skilled worker

Manner Of

change change integrity create from raw material

Motivated By Goal

create eat get away from waiting tables hot dogs taste better hot hot meal hungry make meal meal need food nungry prepare meal

Not Desires

burn meal they're preparing food poisoning

Related Terms

Cox concoct cookware food mageiricophobia scramble

Related Terms

action australia bake bake saute baking baking frying chef concoct cook up cuckoo drug eating english food food preparation frying fuse grenade head heat heat food illegal improvise ingredients jive job kitchen making manor house manufacture meal meth minnesota nebraska new zealand occupation pacific ocean person preparation prepare prepare food prepare meal prepares prepares food preparing preparing food profession saint louis county saute south australia throw utensils

Similar Terms

chef cookess line cook make prep cook sous chef

Synonym Network

bake captain james cook chef cook off fudge

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.