Verb

(en verb)

To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

I'm cooking bangers and mash.

To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

He's in the kitchen, cooking .

To be being cooked.

The dinner is cooking on the stove.

(figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.

Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.

(slang) To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.

''I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab one and throw it back.

To concoct or prepare.

* 2006 , Frank Spalding, Methamphetamine: The Dangers of Crystal Meth (page 47)

The process of cooking meth can leave residue on surfaces all over the home, exposing all of its occupants to the drug.

To tamper with or alter; to cook up.

* Addison

They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different.

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete, rare) To make the noise of the cuckoo.

* 1599 , The Silkworms

Constant cuckoos cook on every side.

Verb

(en verb)

(UK, dialect, obsolete) To throw.

* Grose

Cook me that ball.

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Verb

To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.

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, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path.

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# To witness or observe by personal experience.

#* (Bible), (w) viii. 51

Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

To form a mental picture of.

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, volume=189, issue=11, page=28, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Wings of Desire , passage=It is not just that we see birds as little versions of ourselves. It is also that, at the same time, they stand outside any moral process. They are utterly indifferent. This absolute oblivion on their part, this lack of sharing, is powerful.}}

# (label) To understand.

#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic

# To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.

(label) To meet, to visit.

# To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.

#* (Bible), 1 (w) xv. 35

And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death.

# To date frequently.

(label) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.

(label) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.

To foresee, predict, or prophesy.

To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if'' or ''whether ).

(used in the imperative ) Used to emphasise a proposition.