1. (

• Cooke ,
• Alistair_Cooke ,
• Alfred_Alistair_Cooke

) United States journalist (born in England in 1908) ;

2. (

• Cooke ,
• Jay_Cooke

) United States financier who marketed Union bonds to finance the American Civil War; the failure of his bank resulted in a financial panic in 1873 (1821-1905) ;

1. (

• cook ,

) prepare a hot meal; "My husband doesn't cook" ;

2. (

• cook ,
• fix ,
• ready ,
• make ,
• prepare ,

) prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please" ;

3. (

• cook

) transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes" ;

4. (

• fudge ,
• manipulate ,
• fake ,
• falsify ,
• cook ,
• wangle ,
• misrepresent

) tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" ;

5. (

• cook ,

) transform by heating; "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle" ;