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Biscuit vs Pancake - What's the difference?

biscuit | pancake |

As nouns the difference between biscuit and pancake

is that biscuit is a cookie small, flat, baked cake which is either crisp or soft but firm while pancake is a thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter.

As a verb pancake is

to make a pancake landing.

As a proper noun Pancake is

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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 ----

    pancake

    English

    (wikipedia pancake)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter.
  • (theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
  • (juggling) A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
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    • Synonyms

    * (thin fried batter cake) or crepe, flapjack, griddle cake, hotcake, pikelet

    Derived terms

    * flat as a pancake * pancake landing * Pancake Day * pancake tortoise

    Verb

    (pancak)
  • To make a pancake landing
  • (construction, demolition) To collapse one floor after another.
  • To flatten violently.
  • * 2011 , Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters
    • Poor old Sleepy suffered from an on-duty head injury he'd got by chasing a Corvette on a police motorcycle, ending up like a pancaked roadkill with half his scalp flapping in the backwash of freeway commuters

    See also

    * blintz * okonomiyaki * Pan-Cake * waffle English compound words