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# cookie

noun (cookie, cookies)

«cookie» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A cookie is a small sweet baked biscuit, often round, sometimes with chocolate chips. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cookie/#m1)
2. On a computer, a cookie is a small file a website keeps about your visit. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cookie/#m2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cookie/#x1)
- 28 cookies are shared between 7 children equally. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cookie/#x2)
- Mum bakes 4 trays with 6 cookies on each tray. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cookie/#x3)
- Can I have a chocolate chip cookie? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cookie/#x4)
- Grandpa keeps cookies in a jar. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cookie/#x5)
- We baked cookies for the school fair. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cookie/#x6)
- Don't eat all the cookies before dinner! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cookie/#x7)
- Ask a grown-up before you accept cookies on a website. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cookie/#x8)

### 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](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cookie/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cookie» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cookie.html) on Mova free.