biscuit in English dictionary

  • biscuit

    Meanings and definitions of "biscuit"

    • A cookie.
    • (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; made with very little water, kneaded into flat cakes and slowly baked; often infested with weevils.
    • A light brown colour.
    • biscuit colour:
    • noun
      (chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, rare in the US)
      A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm: a cookie.
    • noun
      (chiefly Canada, US)
      A small, usually soft and flaky bread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet.
    • noun
      (Britain)
      A cracker.
    • noun
      (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.
    • noun
      A form of unglazed earthenware.
    • noun
      A light brown colour.
    • noun
      (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.
    • noun
      (US, slang)
      A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
    • cookie
    • earthenware
    • ship's "bread"
    • noun
      any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)
    • noun
      small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda

    Synonyms of "biscuit" in English dictionary

    cake, cookie, quick bread are the top synonyms of "biscuit" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of biscuit

    • lp  liczba pojedyncza biscuit; lm  liczba mnoga biscuits
    • La Nourrice biscuit (3) after Louis Boizot. biscuit ( plural  biscuits)
    • biscuit (plural biscuits)
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