Cookie
noun
A sweet baked food that is usually small, flat, and round and is made from flour and sugar.
She baked some cookies for her grandchildren.
Often appears as...
- bake cookies
- chocolate chip cookie
noun
In computing, a small piece of data stored on the user's computer by the web browser while browsing a website.
The website uses cookies to remember your preferences.
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Technical
noun
A person, usually a woman, who is considered attractive.
He thinks she is one smart cookie.
Often appears as...
- smart cookie
- tough cookie
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Informal, Approving
Colloquial
noun
A ceramic disc or a metal stamp with a design which is used to imprint a design onto a soft substance such as dough.
She used a cookie to imprint a star design on the dough.
Often appears as...
- cookie cutter
- cookie press
noun
A sweet baked food that is usually small, flat, and round and is made from flour and sugar.
She baked some cookies for her grandchildren.
Often appears as...
- bake cookies
- chocolate chip cookie
noun
In computing, a small piece of data stored on the user's computer by the web browser while browsing a website.
The website uses cookies to remember your preferences.
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A person, usually a woman, who is considered attractive.
He thinks she is one smart cookie.
Often appears as...
- smart cookie
- tough cookie
Usage tips
Informal, Approving
Colloquial
noun
A ceramic disc or a metal stamp with a design which is used to imprint a design onto a soft substance such as dough.
She used a cookie to imprint a star design on the dough.
Often appears as...
- cookie cutter
- cookie press
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Treat
Cookies are often associated with comfort and are a popular treat in many English-speaking countries.
Cookies are a must-have at American Christmas gatherings.
Pro Tip 2/3Variety Matters
There are many cookie varieties, each with unique ingredients like nuts, chocolate, or oatmeal.
Her favorite cookies are oatmeal raisin.
Pro Tip 3/3Homemade Warmth
In English, mentioning homemade cookies evokes a sense of warmth, care, and tradition.
Grandma's homemade cookies filled the room with a lovely scent.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Treat
Cookies are often associated with comfort and are a popular treat in many English-speaking countries.
Cookies are a must-have at American Christmas gatherings.
Pro Tip 2/3Variety Matters
There are many cookie varieties, each with unique ingredients like nuts, chocolate, or oatmeal.
Her favorite cookies are oatmeal raisin.
Pro Tip 3/3Homemade Warmth
In English, mentioning homemade cookies evokes a sense of warmth, care, and tradition.
Grandma's homemade cookies filled the room with a lovely scent.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Treat
Cookies are often associated with comfort and are a popular treat in many English-speaking countries.
Cookies are a must-have at American Christmas gatherings.
Pro Tip 2/3Variety Matters
There are many cookie varieties, each with unique ingredients like nuts, chocolate, or oatmeal.
Her favorite cookies are oatmeal raisin.
Pro Tip 3/3Homemade Warmth
In English, mentioning homemade cookies evokes a sense of warmth, care, and tradition.
Grandma's homemade cookies filled the room with a lovely scent.
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The chemistry of cookies...
causing the dough to start spreading out. Butter is an emulsion, or mixture of two substances that don't want to stay together, in this case, water and fat, along with some dairy solids that help hold them together. As the butter melts, its trapped water is released. And as the cookie gets hotter, the water expands into steam.
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Peter Doolittle: How...
and a little bit of knowledge. It allows us to reach back into our long-term memory and pull some of that in as we need it, mixes it, processes it in light of whatever our current goal is. Now the current goal isn't something like, I want to be president or the best surfer in the world. It's more mundane. I'd like that cookie,
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TIL: How Cookiecutter...
in the same way you might take a Christmas tree and stick it in dough and have perfect edges the cookie cutter shark is able to do this with its teeth a cookie cutter shark is sometimes known as a cigar shark because of the shape of its body there are deep water species and they're really creepy looking they
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A promising test for...
However, there's a catch. These networks of carbon nanotubes are extremely flimsy. And since they're so delicate, they need to be supported. So that's why I chose to use paper. Making a cancer sensor out of paper is about as simple as making chocolate chip cookies, which I love.
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The truth about unwanted...
And then there's the wanting system. Wanting is mediated by this vast dopaminergic network in and beyond the emotional brain. It motivates us to move toward or away from a stimulus. Wanting is more like your toddler, following you around, asking for another cookie.
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The Cookiecutter Shark PIPE...
cookie dough out of something, it's with a scoop. And that's basically what these sharks do. They have this jaw structure that can latch onto the side of an animal and like scoop out a piece of flesh. The cookiecutter shark spends its days deep in the ocean.
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A simple way to break a...
it understands on an intellectual level that we shouldn't smoke. And it tries its hardest to help us change our behavior, to help us stop smoking, to help us stop eating that second, that third, that fourth cookie. We call this cognitive control.
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Love doesn’t need labels...
because I believe in marriage equality and a woman's right to choose can I take that labels too was I good enough mom because I spent so much time on film sets but I didn't make cookies for my son every day after
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Julian Baggini: Is there...
Now in your life, what happens is that you, of course, accumulate different experiences and so forth. So you have memories, and these memories help to create what you are. You have desires, maybe for a cookie,
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How to outsmart the...
This analysis isn’t unique to cookies and wizards; we see it play out in real-life situations like trade negotiations and international politics. Rational leaders must assume that the decisions they make today
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The chemistry of cookies...
causing the dough to start spreading out. Butter is an emulsion, or mixture of two substances that don't want to stay together, in this case, water and fat, along with some dairy solids that help hold them together. As the butter melts, its trapped water is released. And as the cookie gets hotter, the water expands into steam.
Video examples
Peter Doolittle: How...
and a little bit of knowledge. It allows us to reach back into our long-term memory and pull some of that in as we need it, mixes it, processes it in light of whatever our current goal is. Now the current goal isn't something like, I want to be president or the best surfer in the world. It's more mundane. I'd like that cookie,
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TIL: How Cookiecutter...
in the same way you might take a Christmas tree and stick it in dough and have perfect edges the cookie cutter shark is able to do this with its teeth a cookie cutter shark is sometimes known as a cigar shark because of the shape of its body there are deep water species and they're really creepy looking they
Video examples
A promising test for...
However, there's a catch. These networks of carbon nanotubes are extremely flimsy. And since they're so delicate, they need to be supported. So that's why I chose to use paper. Making a cancer sensor out of paper is about as simple as making chocolate chip cookies, which I love.
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The truth about unwanted...
And then there's the wanting system. Wanting is mediated by this vast dopaminergic network in and beyond the emotional brain. It motivates us to move toward or away from a stimulus. Wanting is more like your toddler, following you around, asking for another cookie.
Video examples
The Cookiecutter Shark PIPE...
cookie dough out of something, it's with a scoop. And that's basically what these sharks do. They have this jaw structure that can latch onto the side of an animal and like scoop out a piece of flesh. The cookiecutter shark spends its days deep in the ocean.
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A simple way to break a...
it understands on an intellectual level that we shouldn't smoke. And it tries its hardest to help us change our behavior, to help us stop smoking, to help us stop eating that second, that third, that fourth cookie. We call this cognitive control.
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Love doesn’t need labels...
because I believe in marriage equality and a woman's right to choose can I take that labels too was I good enough mom because I spent so much time on film sets but I didn't make cookies for my son every day after
Video examples
Julian Baggini: Is there...
Now in your life, what happens is that you, of course, accumulate different experiences and so forth. So you have memories, and these memories help to create what you are. You have desires, maybe for a cookie,
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How to outsmart the...
This analysis isn’t unique to cookies and wizards; we see it play out in real-life situations like trade negotiations and international politics. Rational leaders must assume that the decisions they make today
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Danica McKellar
American Actress
If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?
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Maria Bartiromo
American Journalist
Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.
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Jeremy Renner
American Actor
I have a bad sweet tooth. I'm pretty good when I have to eat well for work, but otherwise, I could eat a whole roll of raw cookie dough.
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Willard Scott
American Entertainer
The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform with nice little air holes.
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Elvis Costello
British Musician
Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.
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Teri Garr
American Actress
My mother was a real tough cookie. She raised the three of us, and she worked at the same time.
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Rachel Hollis
American Author
Was there ever a better invention in the cookie world than the Oreo?
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Hillary Clinton
American Politician
I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.
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Taylor Swift
American Singer
I love Karlie Kloss. I want to bake cookies with her!
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Lloyd Blankfein
American Businessman
I'm the chocolate chip cookie king of the world.
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Danica McKellar
American Actress
If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?
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Maria Bartiromo
American Journalist
Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.
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Jeremy Renner
American Actor
I have a bad sweet tooth. I'm pretty good when I have to eat well for work, but otherwise, I could eat a whole roll of raw cookie dough.
Quote examples
Willard Scott
American Entertainer
The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform with nice little air holes.
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Elvis Costello
British Musician
Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.
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Teri Garr
American Actress
My mother was a real tough cookie. She raised the three of us, and she worked at the same time.
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Rachel Hollis
American Author
Was there ever a better invention in the cookie world than the Oreo?
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Hillary Clinton
American Politician
I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.
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Taylor Swift
American Singer
I love Karlie Kloss. I want to bake cookies with her!
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Lloyd Blankfein
American Businessman
I'm the chocolate chip cookie king of the world.
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