Cookie

4 definitions found

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

  Cookey \Cook"ey\, Cookie \Cook"ie\, n.
     See {Cooky}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  cookie
       n 1: any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the
            British term) [syn: {cooky}, {biscuit}]
       2: the cook on a ranch or at a camp [syn: {cooky}]
       3: a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's
          hard drive when you access the web site

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [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). Syn. {magic
     cookie}; see also {fortune cookie}. Now mainstream in the specific sense
     of web-browser cookies.
  
  

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