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Biscuit vs Crackers - What's the difference?

biscuit | crackers |

As nouns the difference between biscuit and crackers

is that biscuit is a cookie small, flat, baked cake which is either crisp or soft but firm while crackers is plural of lang=en.

As an adjective crackers is

crazy, insane.

As a verb crackers is

third-person singular of cracker.

biscuit

English

(wikipedia biscuit)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (lb) A cookie .
  • (UK) A cracker.
    • cheese and biscuits
  • (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.
  • *
  • (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.

    • 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 joint

    Derived 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 biscuit

    See also

    * cookie * cracknel * hardtack * macaroon * pilot bread * soda cracker * English words with different meanings in different locations ----

    crackers

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (South Africa, only plural) A kind of noisy leather pants or trousers.
  • *1849 , E.E. Napier, Excursions in Southern Africa , Vol. II, p. 13:
  • *:Sheepskin trousers—which, from the sound they make at every movement of the wearer, are called ‘crackers ’.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Crazy, insane.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cracker)