cookie : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cookie	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for cookie
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cookie n any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term) Synonym(s): cookie, cooky, biscuit the cook on a ranch or at a camp Synonym(s): cookie, cooky a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cookey \Cook"ey\, Cookie \Cook"ie\, n. See {Cooky}.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
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). Compare {magic cookie}; see also {fortune cookie}. Now mainstream in the specific sense of web-browser cookies.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
cookie 1. 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)