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Goods vs Pancake - What's the difference?

goods | pancake |

As a noun goods

is (business|economics|plurale tantum) that which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed.

As a proper noun pancake is

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goods

English

Noun

(head)
  • (business, economics, plurale tantum) That which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed.
  • (informal, often preceded by the) Something authentic, important, or revealing.
  • (transport) freight (not passengers)
  • English plurals
  • Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to produced, traded, or consumed "goods": returned, used, damaged, stolen, lost, dangerous, non-traded, intermediate, promotional, industrial, agricultural, imported, cheap, expensive, luxury, inferior, counterfeit, raw, processed, scarce, durable, perishable, baked, public, collective, digital, virtual, necessary, essential.

    Synonyms

    * (that which is consumed) wares * evidence, facts

    Antonyms

    * (that which is consumed) capital, services

    Derived terms

    * baked goods * bill of goods * brown goods * capital goods * come up with the goods * consumer goods * cost of goods sold * damaged goods * dangerous goods * deliver the goods * digital goods * dry goods * fancy goods * finished goods * get the goods on, have the goods on * goods and sales tax * goods train, goods van, goods wagon * grave goods * greige goods * heavy goods vehicle * leathergoods * nongoods * red goods * sell someone a bill of goods * smallgoods * softgoods * white goods

    Anagrams

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    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