cook

1. (ambitransitive)To prepare food for eating, typically by heating it, combining it with other ingredients, seasoning it, preparing it for serving, etc.

   I'm cooking bangers and mash.

   He's in the kitchen, cooking.

   kochen, garen

   гото́витьgotóvitʹ, пригото́витьprigotóvitʹ, вари́тьvarítʹ

   готува́тиhotuváty, кухова́ритиkuxováryty, вари́тиvarýty

2. (specifically, transitive)To apply heat to food in the course of preparing it, particularly in a way that transforms it rather than simply making it warmer.

3. (intransitive)To undergo cooking.

   The dinner is cooking on the stove.

4. (transitive)To smelt.

5. (figuratively, intransitive)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.

   печьpečʹ, жаритьžaritʹ

   prepare a hot meal

6. (slang, transitive)To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.

7. (slang, transitive)To execute by electric chair.

8. (slang, transitive)To hold on to 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.

9. To concoct or prepare.

   My brother was locked up for cooking meth in his basement.

   Jesse, we need to cook.

   prepare for eating by applying heat

10. (slang, transitive)To tamper with or alter; to cook up.

    tamper, with the purpose of deception

11. (intransitive, slang)To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)

    Watch this band: they cook!

    Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!

12. (intransitive, slang)To play music vigorously.

    On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!

1. Is your wife a good cook?

   Твоя дружина добре готує?

   ruТвоя жена хорошо готовит?

   deIst deine Frau eine gute Köchin?

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2. This is how I cook fish.

   Ось як я готую рибу.

   ruВот как я готовлю рыбу.

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3. You must be a good cook.

   Ти, мабуть, добрий кухар.

   ruТы, должно быть, хороший повар.

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4. Her daughter is bad at cooking.

   Її дочка погано готує.

   ruЕё дочь плохо готовит.

   deIhre Tochter kann nicht kochen.

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5. Her husband is an excellent cook.

   Її чоловік чудовий повар.

   ruЕё муж превосходный повар.

   deIhr Mann ist ein hervorragender Koch.

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regular · Lesson

• cook upскладати, компенсуватиTo prepare (food or chemical substances) by cooking or heating.
• cook offTo eliminate by cooking.
• cook outTo cook a group meal outside as a family, workplace or other social unit.
• cook backTo recook a drug (especially crack cocaine) in an aqueous solution (water) in order to isolate and concentrate the active ingredients, thereby increasing its potency.
• cook throughTo cook completely, to cook to the core.