To prepare (food) for eating by applying heat, To undergo application of heat especially for the purpose of later ingestion, To prepare or treat by heating, transitive verb_ To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat, To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients, verb_ tamper, with the purpose of deception, prepare for eating by applying heat, noun_ someone who cooks food, One whose occupation is the cooking of food