Cook Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to prepare (food) by the use of heat, as by boiling, baking, or roasting. | | 2. | to subject (anything) to the application of heat. | | 3. | Slang. to ruin; spoil. | | 4. | Informal. to falsify, as accounts: to cook the expense figures. | –verb (used without object) | 5. | to prepare food by the use of heat. | | 6. | (of food) to undergo cooking. | | 7. | Slang. | a. | to be full of activity and excitement: Las Vegas cooks around the clock. | | b. | to perform, work, or do in just the right way and with energy and enthusiasm: That new drummer is really cooking tonight. Now you're cooking! | | c. | to be in preparation; develop: Plans for the new factory have been cooking for several years. | | d. | to take place; occur; happen: What's cooking at the club? | | –noun | 8. | a person who cooks: The restaurant hired a new cook. | —Verb phrases | 9. | cook off, (of a shell or cartridge) to explode or fire without being triggered as a result of overheating in the chamber of the weapon. | | 10. | cook up, Informal. | a. | to concoct or contrive, often dishonestly: She hastily cooked up an excuse. | | b. | to falsify: Someone had obviously cooked up the alibi. | | —Idioms | 11. | cook one's goose. goose (def. 11). | | 12. | cook the books, Slang. to manipulate the financial records of a company, organization, etc., so as to conceal profits, avoid taxes, or present a false financial report to stockholders. | |
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Island Definition–noun | 1. | a tract of land completely surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent. | | 2. | something resembling an island, esp. in being isolated or having little or no direct communication with others. | | 3. | a raised platform with a counter or other work surface on top situated in the middle area of a room, esp. a kitchen, so as to permit access from all sides. | | 5. | a low concrete platform for gasoline pumps at an automotive service station. | | 6. | a clump of woodland in a prairie. | | 8. | Anatomy. an isolated portion of tissue differing in structure from the surrounding tissue. | | 9. | Railroads. a platform or building between sets of tracks. | –verb (used with object) | 10. | to make into an island. | | 12. | to place on an island; isolate. | |
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self-governing island state in free association with New Zealand, located in the South Pacific Ocean. Its 15 small atolls and islands have a total land area comparable to that of a medium-sized city, ...
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southernmost archipelago of French Polynesia in the central South Pacific Ocean. Volcanic in origin, the islands are part of a vast submerged mountain chain, probably a southeasterly extension of the ...
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