Cookbook

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cookbook
       n : a book of recipes and cooking directions [syn: {cookery book}]

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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. 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.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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)