cooking

n 1: the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so

prepared [syn: {cookery}, {cuisine}, {culinary art}]

2: the act of preparing something (as food) by the application

of heat [syn: {cookery}]

cookie

1. A handle, transaction ID, or other token of

agreement between cooperating programs. "I give him a packet,

he gives me back a cookie".

The claim check you get from a dry-cleaning shop is a perfect

mundane example of a cookie; the only thing it's useful for is

to relate a later transaction to this one (so you get the same

clothes back).

Another example is an {HTTP cookie}.

Compare {magic cookie}; see also {fortune cookie}.

2. A {cracker} term for the {password} list

on a {multi-user} computer.

3. An adjective describing a computer that just

became {toast}.

(1997-04-14)