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Cookbook

Definition: Cookbook

Cookbook

Noun

1. A book of recipes and cooking directions.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cookbook" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1899. (references)

Note: Cookbook \Cook"book`\ (-b[oo^]k`), noun. A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book. [U.S.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definition: Cookbook

DomainDefinition

Computing

Cookbook n. [from amateur electronics and radio] A book of small code segments that the reader can use to do various magic things in programs. One current example is the "{PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook" by Adobe Systems, Inc (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-10179-3), also known as the Blue Book which has recipes for things like wrapping text around arbitrary curves and making 3D fonts. Cookbooks, slavishly followed, can lead one into voodoo programming, but are useful for hackers trying to monkey up small programs in unknown languages. This function is analogous to the role of phrasebooks in human languages. Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Cookbook

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A cookbook contains information on cooking, and a list of recipes. It may also contain information on ingredient origin, freshness, selection and quality, e.g. the Slow Food movement's ark of taste criteria.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cookbook."

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Synonym: Cookbook

Synonym: cookery book (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Cookbook

English words defined with "cookbook": Fannie Farmer, Fannie Merritt Farmer, farmer. (references)
Specialty definitions using "cookbook": Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ voodoo programming. (references)

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Modern Usage: Cookbook

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Ah! The poison cookbook! (Snow White; writing credit: Michael Berz; Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Cookbook

DomainTitle

Books

  • Thelma's Country Clatter Cookbook (reference)

  • Express Lane Cookbook : Fast, Healthful Meals with Mimimal Cleanup (reference)

  • P[a]wsitively Clemson : tastes of the tigers, a Clemson cookbook (reference)

  • Seazar and Cleo's Pet Food Cookbook (reference)

  • The Des Moines Register Cookbook (A Bur Oak Original) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Sesame Street - Elmo's Magic Cookbook (reference)

  • The Great Chefs-Great Cities Cookbook (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Consumer Goods

  • All-Clad LTD 2-1/2-Quart Julia Child Casserole Pan with Cookbook (reference)

  • George Foreman GR26CB Family Size Plus Grill with Cookbook (reference)

  • OXO Good Grips Can Opener and A Man, A Can, A Plan Cookbook Set (reference)

  • T-Fal Sensor 2 Stainless Steel 8-Quart Pressure Cooker with Cookbook (reference)

    (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Cookbook

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Photo Album: Cookbook

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

The bride's cookbook doesn't tell what to do with leftovers. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: Cookbook

"Cookbook" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.56% of the time. "Cookbook" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)97.56%4054,274
Noun (proper)2.44%1339,140
                    Total100.00%41N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Cookbook

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "cookbook": cookbook-come-autobiography.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cookbook

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

anarchist cookbook.com

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cookbook

Language Translations for "cookbook"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

libër gatimi (cookery book). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

готварска книга (cookery book). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

食譜 (cookery book, recipe). (various references)

   

Czech

  

kuchařská kniha (cookery book), kuchařka (cook, cookery book, cooky). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

کتاب طباخی , کتاب اشپزی . (various references)

   

German

  

kochbuch (cookery book). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szakácskönyv (cookery book, receipt book, recipe book). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ricettario (book of prescriptions, recipe book). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ookbookcay

   

Portuguese

  

livro de receitas (receiptbook). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

поваренная книга (cookery book, cookery-book). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kuvar (cook, cookery book, trencherman). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

libro de cocina. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kokbok (cookery book). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ตำราอาหาร. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yemek kitabı (cookery book). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Cookbook

Derivations

Words beginning with "cookbook": cookbooks. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Cookbook" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cookboy, Omokoko. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Cookbook"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "cookbook" (pronounced kuh"kbuh'k)
4-k b uh' kcheckbook.
3-b uh' kguidebook, handbook, hornbook, logbook, matchbook, notebook, overbook, passbook, pocketbook, Schoolbook, scrapbook, sketchbook, sourcebook, storybook, textbook, yearbook.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Cookbook

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-k-k-o-o-o-o"

-4 letters: bock, book, cook, kobo, kook.

-5 letters: boo, cob, coo, kob.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-k-k-o-o-o-o"
 

+1 letter: cookbooks.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern 		5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Usage Frequency 		9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations 		13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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