Biscuit vs Cracker - What's the difference?
biscuit | cracker |
(lb) A cookie .
(UK) A cracker.
(chiefly, North America) A small bread usually made with baking soda, similar in texture to a scone, but usually not sweet.
A form of unglazed earthenware.
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(nautical) The "bread" formerly supplied to naval ships, which was made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes and slowly baked, and which often became infested with weevils.
A light brown colour.
(woodworking) A thin oval wafer of wood or other material inserted into mating slots on pieces of material to be joined to provide gluing surface and strength in shear.
A dry, thin, crispy, and usually salty or savoury biscuit.
A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked .
A firecracker.
A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).
(Perhaps from previous sense.) A native of Florida or Georgia. See
(pejorative, ethnic slur) A white person, especially one form the Southeastern United States. Also "white cracker". See
A Christmas cracker
Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
(chiefly, British) A fine thing or person (crackerjack).
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An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
(computing) One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
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* 2002 , Steve Jones, Encyclopedia of New Media (page 1925)
(obsolete) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
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A northern pintail, species of dabbling duck.
(obsolete) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
(US, pejorative, racial slur) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; by extension: any white person.
Cracker is a synonym of biscuit.
Cracker is a related term of biscuit.
As nouns the difference between biscuit and cracker
is that biscuit is a cookie small, flat, baked cake which is either crisp or soft but firm while cracker is a dry, thin, crispy, and usually salty or savoury biscuit.biscuit
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(wikipedia biscuit)Noun
(en noun)- cheese and biscuits
Quotations
(English Citations of "biscuit")Usage notes
* In British usage, a (term) is distinct from a (term); the former is generally hard but becomes soft when stale, whereas the latter is generally soft but becomes hard when stale.Coordinate terms
* (woodworking) dowel, glue strip, spline, finger jointDerived terms
* Anzac biscuit * bickie * biscotto * biscuit firing * biscuit ware * bisque * bite the biscuit * digestive biscuit * dog biscuit * ratafia biscuit * sea biscuit * ship biscuit * soda biscuit * take the biscuit * water biscuitSee also
* cookie * cracknel * hardtack * macaroon * pilot bread * soda cracker * English words with different meanings in different locations ----cracker
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Etymology 1
From the verb to crack . Hard "bread/biscuit" sense first attested 1739, though "hard wafer" sense attested 1440. Sense of computer (cracker), (crack), (cracking), were promoted in the 1980s as an alternative to (hacker), by programmers concerned about negative public associations of (hack), . See .Noun
(en noun)- She's an absolute cracker'''! The show was a '''cracker !
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- It stated to one of the company's operators, “The Phantom, the system cracker , strikes again . . . Soon I will zero (expletive deleted) your desks and your backups on System A. I have already cracked your System B.
- Likewise, early software pirates and "crackers " often used phrases like "information wants to be free" to protest the regulations against the copying of proprietary software packages and computer systems.
- What cracker is this same that deafs our ears?
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Derived terms
* crackerless * crackerlikeSynonyms
* biscuit * (twisted string on a whip) popper, snapper * (one who defeats software security) black hat hacker * (one who defeats software security) hacker * (white person) honky, wonderbread, whiteyEtymology 2
Various theories exists regarding this term's application to poor white Southerners. One theory holds that it originated with disadvantaged corn and wheat farmers ("corncrackers"), who cracked'' their crops rather than taking them to the mill. Another theory asserts that it was applied due to Georgia and Florida settlers (:I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by crackers; a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia, who often change their places of abode.", John A. Burrison, Georgia State University, 2002cracker]" in the Online Etymology Dictionary'', Douglas Harper, 2001"[http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-552 cracker" in ''The New Georgia Encyclopedia