cookie

«cookie» in Mova's school dictionary: a small sweet baked biscuit, often round, sometimes with… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (cookie, cookies)

meaning for a pupil

1) A cookie is a small sweet baked biscuit, often round, sometimes with chocolate chips. tree →

2) On a computer, a cookie is a small file a website keeps about your visit. tree →

sense 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 →
• 28 cookies are shared between 7 children equally. tree →
• Mum bakes 4 trays with 6 cookies on each tray. tree →
• Can I have a chocolate chip cookie? tree →
• Grandpa keeps cookies in a jar. tree →
• We baked cookies for the school fair. tree →
• Don't eat all the cookies before dinner! tree →
• Ask a grown-up before you accept cookies on a website. tree →

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.

In the corpora

• It can drop the sugar from a cookie recipe.
• Raw egg and raw flour can carry germs, so cookie dough and cake batter should be baked before eating.
• Jasmine blamed the last cookie on her sister, then the dog, then «maybe it just fell».
• Dad: «Three suspects for one cookie.
• British biscuit, pavement and lift are American cookie, sidewalk and elevator.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cookie» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.