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Cookies: Baked Treats and Web Tracking Files (2 meaning)
Meaning 1：baked sweet treat (Cookies)
Cookies
/ˈkʊkiz/
n.
Small, sweet baked treats, often made from flour, sugar, and butter.
baked sweet treat
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/beɪkt swiːt triːt/
n.
A small, flat, sweet baked food typically made from flour, sugar, butter, and often added ingredients like chocolate chips or nuts.
📘 Details & Usage
📖 Root Explanation
From Dutch 'koekje' (little cake), diminutive of 'koek' (cake).
💡 Mnemonic
Think of a cookie you eat (sweet baked treat) and a cookie on your browser (data file) – both are small and stored.
📖 Example
My mom just baked a fresh batch of chocolate chip cookies, and the whole house smells amazing.
My mom just baked a fresh batch of chocolate chip cookies, and the whole house smells amazing.
🔗 Collocations
chocolate chip cookie – A cookie with chocolate chips
cookie dough – Unbaked cookie mixture
bake cookies – To cook cookies in an oven
🔄 Synonyms
🚫 Antonyms
vegetable (n.) – A plant-based food, typically not sweet or baked like a cookie
🌱 Derivatives
cookie cutter (n.) – A tool to shape cookie dough
cookie jar (n.) – A container for storing cookies
📖 Cultural Story
The word 'cookie' entered English via Dutch settlers in America, who brought 'koekje' (little cake) to describe sweet baked treats. In computing, 'cookie' was coined in 1994 by Lou Montulli, inspired by the term 'magic cookie' from programming.
Meaning 2：web tracking file (Cookies)
Cookies
/ˈkʊkiz/
n.
A small piece of data stored on your computer by a website to remember information about you.
web tracking file
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/wɛb ˈtrækɪŋ faɪl/
n.
A small text file stored on a user's computer by a website to remember information such as login status, preferences, or browsing activity.
📘 Details & Usage
📖 Example
When you visit that online store again, it remembers your cart items because of a cookie saved in your browser.
When you visit that online store again, it remembers your cart items because of a cookie saved in your browser.
🔗 Collocations
browser cookie – A cookie stored by a web browser
tracking cookie – A cookie used to follow user activity
clear cookies – To delete cookies from the browser
🔄 Synonyms
web storage (n.) – Data stored locally by websites, similar to cookies
local storage (n.) – A modern web storage method for larger data
session data (n.) – Temporary data stored during a browsing session
🌱 Derivatives
cookie consent (n.) – Permission given by a user to store cookies
cookie policy (n.) – A website's rules about cookie usage
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