cookie
n. small sweet cake which is baked on flat pans (also cooky, cookey); (Computers) file planted on a user's hard disk by an Internet site (contains personal information about the user and is used to develop target audiences for Internet advertising); cook on a ranch, cook at a camp; (Slang) person of a specified nature (e.g. "She is a smart cookie"; "Tom is a tough cookie") cooky n. small sweet cake which is baked on flat pans; (Computers) file planted on a user's hard disk by an Internet site (contains personal information about the user and is used to develop target audiences for Internet advertising); cook on a ranch, cook at a camp; (Slang) person of a specified nature (e.g. "She is a smart cookie"; "Tom is a tough cookie"), cookie, cookey cookey n. small sweet cake which is baked on flat pans (also cooky, cookie); (Computers) file planted on a user's hard disk by an Internet site (contains personal information about the user and is used to develop target audiences for Internet advertising); cook on a ranch, cook at a camp; (Slang) person of a specified nature (e.g. "She is a smart cookey.") | ||||
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Cookies Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
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cookie
1. <protocol> 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).
Another example is an HTTP cookie.
Compare magic cookie; see also fortune cookie.
2. A cracker term for the password list on a multi-user computer.
3. An adjective describing a computer that just became toast.
(1997-04-14)
1. <protocol> 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).
Another example is an HTTP cookie.
Compare magic cookie; see also fortune cookie.
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(1997-04-14)
| Jensen's Technology Glossary |
Cookies
Applets that enable a web site to collect information about each user for later reference (as in finding cookies in the cookie jar). Web Browsers like Netscape Navigator set aside a small amount of space on the user's hard drive to record detected preferences. Many times when you browse a website, your browser checks to see if you have any pre-defined preferences (cookie) for that server if you do it sends the cookie to the server along with the request for a web page. Sometimes cookies are used to collect items of an order as the user places things in a shopping cart and has not yet submitted the full order. A cookie allows WWW customers to fill their orders (shopping carts) and then be billed based upon the cookie payment information. Cookies retain information about a users browsing patterns at a web site. A good place to find out more about cookies is at http://www.illuminatus.com/cookie.fcgi. Also see http://www.doubleclick.net/ and http://www.ipro.com/. Cookies perform storage on the client side that might otherwise have to be stored in a generic-state or database server on the server side. Cookies can be used to collect information for consumer profile databases. Browsers can be set to refuse cookies. Other ways of controlling cookies or deleting selected cookies can be obtained from http://www.privnet.com/ and http://www.wizvax.net/kevinmca/. (See also Finger and World Wide Web)
Applets that enable a web site to collect information about each user for later reference (as in finding cookies in the cookie jar). Web Browsers like Netscape Navigator set aside a small amount of space on the user's hard drive to record detected preferences. Many times when you browse a website, your browser checks to see if you have any pre-defined preferences (cookie) for that server if you do it sends the cookie to the server along with the request for a web page. Sometimes cookies are used to collect items of an order as the user places things in a shopping cart and has not yet submitted the full order. A cookie allows WWW customers to fill their orders (shopping carts) and then be billed based upon the cookie payment information. Cookies retain information about a users browsing patterns at a web site. A good place to find out more about cookies is at http://www.illuminatus.com/cookie.fcgi. Also see http://www.doubleclick.net/ and http://www.ipro.com/. Cookies perform storage on the client side that might otherwise have to be stored in a generic-state or database server on the server side. Cookies can be used to collect information for consumer profile databases. Browsers can be set to refuse cookies. Other ways of controlling cookies or deleting selected cookies can be obtained from http://www.privnet.com/ and http://www.wizvax.net/kevinmca/. (See also Finger and World Wide Web)
Cookies Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Cookies
(pl. )
of Cooky
(pl. )
of Cooky
| WordNet 2.0 |
cookie
Noun
1. any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)
(synonym) cooky, biscuit
(hypernym) cake
(hyponym) teacake, tea biscuit
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2. the cook on a ranch or at a camp
(synonym) cooky
(hypernym) cook
3. a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site
(hypernym) text, textual matter
(hyponym) session cookie
Noun
1. any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)
(synonym) cooky, biscuit
(hypernym) cake
(hyponym) teacake, tea biscuit
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2. the cook on a ranch or at a camp
(synonym) cooky
(hypernym) cook
3. a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site
(hypernym) text, textual matter
(hyponym) session cookie
cooky
Noun
1. the cook on a ranch or at a camp
(synonym) cookie
(hypernym) cook
2. any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)
(synonym) cookie, biscuit
(hypernym) cake
(hyponym) teacake, tea biscuit
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
| Australian Slang |
Hash cookies
biscuits made with hashish in them
biscuits made with hashish in them
Cookies Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Technical English by wpv |
Cookies
A file sent to a web browser by a web server that is used to record once's activities.
A file sent to a web browser by a web server that is used to record once's activities.
Cookies Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia |
Cookie
In the United States and Canada, a cookie (or cooky) is a small, round, flat cake. In most English-speaking countries outside North America, the most common word for this is biscuit; in many regions both terms are used, while in others the two words have different meanings—a cookie is a plain bun in Scotland, while in the United States a biscuit is a kind of quick bread not unlike a scone.
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