The difference between Biscuit and Cracker
When used as nouns, biscuit means a small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm: a cookie, whereas cracker means a dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
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Biscuit as a noun (chiefly, UK, Australia, Ireland, NZ, rare in the US):
A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm: a cookie.
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Biscuit as a noun (chiefly, North America):
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.
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Biscuit as a noun (UK):
A cracker.
Examples:
"cheese and biscuits'', ''[[water biscuit water biscuits]]'', ''digestive biscuits"
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Biscuit as a 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.
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Biscuit as a noun:
A form of unglazed earthenware.
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Biscuit as a noun:
A light brown colour.
Examples:
"color paneFCE7D3"
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Biscuit as a 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.
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Biscuit as a noun (US, slang):
A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.
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Biscuit as a noun (US, slang, hiphop):
A handgun, especially a revolver.
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Biscuit as a noun (ice hockey):
A hockey puck.
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Cracker as a noun:
A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
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Cracker as a noun:
A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.
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Cracker as a noun:
A firecracker.
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Cracker as a noun:
A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker). The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope and produces a cracking sound.
Examples:
"synonyms: popper"
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Cracker as a noun:
A Christmas cracker.
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Cracker as a noun:
Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
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Cracker as a noun (slang, chiefly, British):
A fine thing or person (crackerjack).
Examples:
"She's an absolute cracker! The show was a cracker!"
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Cracker as a noun:
An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
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Cracker as a noun (computing):
One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
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Cracker as a noun (obsolete):
A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
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Cracker as a noun (US, derogatory, racial slur):
An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; any white person.
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Cracker as a noun (US, Florida, slang, derogatory):
A police officer.
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Cracker as a noun:
A northern pintail, species of dabbling duck.
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Cracker as a noun (obsolete):
A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
Examples:
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