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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a book of recipes and cooking directions;
[syn: cookbook, cookery book]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cookbook \Cook"book`\ (-b[oo^]k`), n. A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book. [U.S.] [1913 Webster] "Just How": a key to the cookbooks. --Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cookbook n 1: a book of recipes and cooking directions [syn: cookbook, cookery book]
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

cookbook n. [from amateur electronics and radio] A book of small code segments that the reader can use to do various magic things in programs. Cookbooks, slavishly followed, can lead one into voodoo programming, but are useful for hackers trying to monkey up small programs in unknown languages. This function is analogous to the role of phrasebooks in human languages.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

cookbook (From amateur electronics and radio) A book of small code segments that the reader can use to do various magic things in programs. One current example is the "PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook" by Adobe Systems, Inc (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-10179-3), also known as the Blue Book which has recipes for things like wrapping text around arbitrary curves and making 3D fonts. Cookbooks, slavishly followed, can lead one into voodoo programming, but are useful for hackers trying to monkey up small programs in unknown languages. This function is analogous to the role of phrasebooks in human languages. [Jargon File] (1994-11-04)