Biscuit vs Pancake - What's the difference?
biscuit | pancake |
(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 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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To make a pancake landing
(construction, demolition) To collapse one floor after another.
To flatten violently.
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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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English
(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 ----pancake
English
(wikipedia pancake)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (thin fried batter cake) or crepe, flapjack, griddle cake, hotcake, pikeletDerived terms
* flat as a pancake * pancake landing * Pancake Day * pancake tortoiseVerb
(pancak)- 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
