cookie
noun (cookie, cookies)
Everyday
- A cookie is a small sweet baked biscuit, often round, sometimes with chocolate chips. tree →
- On a computer, a cookie is a small file a website keeps about your visit. tree →
In the lessons
a counted thing in problems, often eaten («ate 5 of them» = subtract) or shared («shared between 7» = divide) or baked in trays («4 trays of 6» = multiply); in everyday life «cookie» is the usual word in the USA and Canada, «biscuit» in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand; in online safety «accept cookies» on a website
Examples
- There were 9 cookies. Zoe ate 5 of them. tree →
- 28 cookies are shared between 7 children equally. tree →
- Mum bakes 4 trays with 6 cookies on each tray. tree →
- Can I have a chocolate chip cookie? tree →
- Grandpa keeps cookies in a jar. tree →
- We baked cookies for the school fair. tree →
- Don't eat all the cookies before dinner! tree →
- Ask a grown-up before you accept cookies on a website. tree →
Note
The thing being counted; no clue for the operation. Plural «cookies». In British English a «biscuit» is the same kind of thing; in American English a «biscuit» is a kind of soft bread roll.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «cookie» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «cookie» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/cookie/