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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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Biscuit as a noun (UK):

    A cracker.

    Examples:

    "cheese and biscuits'', ''[[water biscuit water biscuits]]'', ''digestive biscuits"

  4. 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.

  5. Biscuit as a noun:

    A form of unglazed earthenware.

  6. Biscuit as a noun:

    A light brown colour.

    Examples:

    "color paneFCE7D3"

  7. 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.

  8. Biscuit as a noun (US, slang):

    A plastic card bearing the codes for authorizing a nuclear attack.

  9. Biscuit as a noun (US, slang, hiphop):

    A handgun, especially a revolver.

  10. Biscuit as a noun (ice hockey):

    A hockey puck.

  1. 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).

  2. 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.

  3. Cracker as a noun:

    A firecracker.

  4. 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"

  5. Cracker as a noun:

    A Christmas cracker.

  6. 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

  7. Cracker as a noun (slang, chiefly, British):

    A fine thing or person (crackerjack).

    Examples:

    "She's an absolute cracker! The show was a cracker!"

  8. Cracker as a noun:

    An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).

  9. Cracker as a noun (computing):

    One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.

  10. Cracker as a noun (obsolete):

    A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.

  11. 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.

  12. Cracker as a noun (US, Florida, slang, derogatory):

    A police officer.

  13. Cracker as a noun:

    A northern pintail, species of dabbling duck.

  14. Cracker as a noun (obsolete):

    A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.

    Examples:

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