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# cookbook

«cookbook» in Mova's school dictionary: **a book of recipes and instructions for cooking** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a cookbook, cookbooks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cookbook is a book of recipes and instructions for cooking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cookbook/#m1)

2) (informal) A cookbook can mean any set of step-by-step instructions to follow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cookbook/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and cooking lessons people follow a cookbook to make meals. In maths, recipes in cookbooks are scaled up or down with multiplication and ratio. In UK English «cookery book» is also used.

### examples

- Mum got a new cookbook for her birthday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cookbook/#x1)
- Follow the recipe in the cookbook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cookbook/#x2)
- Our class made a cookbook of healthy snacks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cookbook/#x3)
- The cookbook says to bake for 20 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cookbook/#x4)
- Grandma's old cookbook is covered in flour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cookbook/#x5)
- This cookbook has recipes from around the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cookbook/#x6)

### note

One word. UK also says «cookery book». In maths, doubling a cookbook recipe means doubling every amount, but not the cooking time.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cookbook» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cookbook/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.