Pancake vs Dosa - What's the difference?
pancake | dosa |
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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A type of thin south Indian pancake made from fermented lentils and rice blended with water, typically served with chutney or sambar.
* 2008 , Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger , Atlantic 2009, p. 141:
As nouns the difference between pancake and dosa
is that pancake is a thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter while dosa is a type of thin south Indian pancake made from fermented lentils and rice blended with water, typically served with chutney or sambar.As a verb pancake
is to make a pancake landing.As a proper noun Pancake
is {{surname|lang=en}.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
See also
* blintz * okonomiyaki * Pan-Cake * waffle English compound wordsdosa
English
(wikipedia dosa)Noun
(en-noun)- I carried the Mongoose's bags to the right carriage of the train, then went to a stall and bought a dosa , wrapped in paper, for him.