Biscuit vs Wafer - What's the difference?
biscuit | wafer |
(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 light, thin, flat biscuit.
(religion) A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion.
A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc.
* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 202:
(electronics) A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.
As nouns the difference between biscuit and wafer
is that biscuit is a cookie small, flat, baked cake which is either crisp or soft but firm while wafer is a light, thin, flat biscuit.As a verb wafer is
to seal or close with a wafer.biscuit
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 ----wafer
English
Noun
(en noun)- The house supplied him with a wafer for his present purpose, with which, having sealed his letter, he returned hastily towards the brook side, in order to search for the things which he had there lost.