Search Result for "cookie":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term);
[syn: cookie, cooky, biscuit]

2. the cook on a ranch or at a camp;
[syn: cookie, cooky]

3. a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cookey \Cook"ey\, Cookie \Cook"ie\, n. See Cooky. [1913 Webster]
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003):

cookie n. A handle, transaction ID, or other token of agreement between cooperating programs. "I give him a packet, he gives me back a cookie." The claim check you get from a dry-cleaning shop is a perfect mundane example of a cookie; the only thing it's useful for is to relate a later transaction to this one (so you get the same clothes back). Syn. magic cookie; see also fortune cookie. Now mainstream in the specific sense of web-browser cookies.