/kʊk/
Translation
To make food ready to eat by using heat.
Word origin
From Old English coc, from Latin coquus, meaning a person who cooks.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- coc
Grammar
Examples
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"Cook" means to make food ready to eat with heat.
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"Cooks" is the form used with he, she, or it.
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"Cooked" is the past form of "cook".
To cook is to make food ready to eat by using heat. The past form is "cooked".
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(4)Grammar articles
(7)Future in the past: was going to, would, was about to, and the grammar of plans that failed
Gerund and infinitive: which verb form comes next?
Mixed conditionals in English: past causes with present results, and present causes with past results
Passive voice in English: rules, examples and when to use it
Past continuous tense: was and were plus -ing, and when to use it instead of the past simple
Past modals in English: should have, could have, must have and might have
The subjunctive and the unreal past in English: I suggest he go, if I were you, and it's time we left
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