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# 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 →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cookie/#m2)

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

### In the corpora

- [It can drop the sugar from a cookie recipe.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/6/)
- [Raw egg and raw flour can carry germs, so cookie dough and cake batter should be baked before eating.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking/16/)
- [Jasmine blamed the last cookie on her sister, then the dog, then «maybe it just fell».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/7/)
- [Dad: «Three suspects for one cookie.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/431-when-the-story-falls-apart/8/)
- [British biscuit, pavement and lift are American cookie, sidewalk and elevator.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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