cook

cook
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noun
ADJECTIVE
excellent, good, gourmet (esp. AmE), great, wonderful

He's a very good cook.

amateur (esp. BrE), home

easy recipes for home cooks

professional

She wants to become a professional cook.

fry (AmE), short-order

He found work as a short-order cook in a local diner.

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verb
ADVERB
fully, thoroughly, well

Make sure you cook the meat well.

perfectly

The vegetables were cooked perfectly.

evenly, gently, slowly

Turn the fish over so that it cooks evenly.

quickly
PHRASES
be cooked through

Ensure that the meat is cooked through.

freshly cooked

the smell of freshly cooked bacon

Cook is used with these nouns as the object: ↑bacon, ↑beef, ↑book, ↑cabbage, ↑carrot, ↑casserole, ↑celery, ↑chicken, ↑chip, ↑chop, ↑dish, ↑egg, ↑fish, ↑food, ↑ham, ↑joint, ↑lunch, ↑meat, ↑mushroom, ↑onion, ↑pancake, ↑pasta, ↑pea, ↑pie, ↑potato, ↑recipe, ↑rice, ↑salmon, ↑sausage, ↑seafood, ↑soup, ↑spaghetti, ↑steak, ↑turkey, ↑vegetables

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