Decrease and Cook

decrease

A change downward.
- usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
- synonyms: lessening, drop-off
A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
- synonyms: decrement
The amount by which something decreases.
- synonyms: decrement
The act of decreasing or reducing something.
- synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

Decrease in size, extent, or range.
- usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
- synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
Make smaller.
- usage: "He decreased his staff"
- synonyms: lessen, minify

(v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
(v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
(n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
(v.) The wane of the moon.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

cook

Someone who cooks food.
English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779.
- synonyms: James Cook, Captain Cook, Captain James Cook

Prepare a hot meal.
- usage: "My husband doesn't cook"
Prepare for eating by applying heat.
- usage: "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
- synonyms: fix, ready, make, prepare
Transform and make suitable for consumption by heating.
- usage: "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"
Tamper, with the purpose of deception.
- usage: "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"
- synonyms: fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, wangle, misrepresent
Transform by heating.
- usage: "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"

(v.t.) To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.
(n.) One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.
(v.i.) To prepare food for the table.
(n.) A fish, the European striped wrasse.
(v.t.) To throw.
(v.t.) To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.
(v.i.) To make the noise of the cuckoo.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Cook is a masculine given name