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Definition: Biscuit |
BiscuitNoun1. Small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda. 2. Any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "biscuit" was first used: 16th century, respelled in the 19th century from "bisket". (references) |
Etymology: Biscuit \Bis"cuit\, noun. [French expression biscuit (compare to Italian expression biscotto, Spanish bizcocho, Portuguese biscouto), from the Latin expression bis twice coctus, past participle of coquere to cook, bake. See Cook, and compare to Bisque kind of porcelain.]. (references) |
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Electrical Engineering | A small slab of plastic material for use in the compression moulding of disks. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Biscuit (French-Latin, bis, twice; cuit, baked). So called because it was originally twice ovened. The Romans had a bread of this kind. In pottery, earthenware or porcelain, after it has been hardened in the fire, but has not yet been glazed, is so called. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. Unglazed ceramic ware that has been fired in a biscuit or bisque oven or film. b. A small cake of primary metal, such as uranium, made from uraniumtetrafluoride and magnesium in a bomb reduction. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In the Southern United States, biscuit means a form of bread similar to a roll made with baking powder or baking soda as a rising agent rather than yeast (rolls made with yeast are often called "yeast rolls" to distinguish them, and biscuits and corn bread are sometimes referred to collectively as "quick bread")A basic biscuit recipe includes flour, shortening (often lard), baking powder or soda, and milk (buttermilk or sweet milk). Common variations involve cheese or sugar.
In Europe, a biscuit is a harder baked product which in North America would be called a "cookie". The origins of the word mean twice cooked.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Biscuit."
Synonyms: BiscuitSynonyms: cookie (n), cooky (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dryness | Adjective: dry, anhydrous, arid; adust, arescent; dried. Verb: undamped; juiceless, sapless; sear; husky; rainless, without rain, fine; dry as a bone, dry as dust, dry as a stick, dry as a mummy, dry as a biscuit. |
Food | Beef, bisquit, bun; cornstarch; cookie, cooky; cracker, doughnut; fatling; hardtack, hoecake, hominy; mutton, pilot bread; pork; roti, rusk, ship biscuit; veal; joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled; remove, entremet; releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince; pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat; pie, pasty, volauvent; pudding, omelet; pastry; sweets; kickshaws; condiment. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Biscuit |
| English words defined with "biscuit": Biscotin, Boud, buttermilk biscuit ♦ cobbler, Cracknel ♦ deep-dish pie, dog biscuit, drop biscuit ♦ get by ♦ hardtack, Hard-tack ♦ meat pie ♦ Parian, pigs in blankets, pilot biscuit, pilot bread ♦ rolled biscuit ♦ scone, sea biscuit, ship biscuit, shortcake, soda biscuit ♦ tea biscuit, teacake ♦ water biscuit, Wine biscuit. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "biscuit": B&CMA ♦ CAKE TESTER, Carrara porcelain ♦ LOBSCOUSE ♦ parian-ware ♦ RECORD-PRESS TENDER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "biscuit": rusk. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Biscuit" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (biscuit, cookie), French (biscuit, cookie, cream cake), Portuguese (calcined clay, grog), Romanian (biscuit, cooky, hardtack, rusk), Romansch (biscuit). |
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Screenplays | My own stools, Sir, are gigantic and have no more odor than a hot biscuit. (The Road to Wellville; writing credit: Alan Parker) I got a hot lead biscuit all buttered up and ready for ya (The Unbearable Whiteness of Dean; writing credit: Eric Stormoen) It's some sort of delicious biscuit. (Black Books; writing credit: Graham Linehan; Arthur Mathews) | |
Tongue Twisters | I bought a box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Biscuit Eater (1972) Danger Biscuit (1969) The Biscuit Eater (1940) | |
Song Titles | Rubber Biscuit (performing artist: The Chips) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | (1) color slide shows one sausage biscuit. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | Her first batch of biscuit. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | In Makudsu's work-rooms - applying relief decoration on the biscuit. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Charlotte, North Carolina. Sunshine biscuit trucks. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Honey drops" by Ashvin Jetpuria Commentary: "Honey drops on breakfast Wheatbix biscuit." | "Deventercake" by Patrick Nijhuis Commentary: "Deventer biscuit town." |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Granma bowed so low that her nose was nearly in her plate of biscuit and gravy |
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| "Biscuit" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.46% of the time. "Biscuit" is used about 554 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.46% | 551 | 11,300 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.36% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.18% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 554 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "biscuit": biscuit tin ♦ biscuit ware ♦ Brussels biscuit ♦ buttermilk biscuit ♦ dog biscuit ♦ drop biscuit ♦ dry as a biscuit ♦ hard biscuit ♦ Meat biscuit ♦ pilot biscuit ♦ ratafia biscuit ♦ rich tea biscuit ♦ rolled biscuit ♦ sea biscuit ♦ ship biscuit ♦ ship's biscuit ♦ shortbread biscuit ♦ soda biscuit ♦ tea biscuit ♦ that takes the biscuit ♦ water biscuit ♦ Wine biscuit. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "biscuit": biscuit-barrel, biscuit-bowl, biscuit-brown, biscuit-coloured, biscuit-fired, biscuit-makers, biscuit-making, biscuit-rich, biscuit-thin, biscuit-tin, biscuit-tins. | |
Ending with "biscuit": bully-and-biscuit, dog-biscuit, it's-four-o'clock-so-i-must-want-a-biscuit, ring-biscuit, tea-biscuit. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
biscuit | 603 | king biscuit | 34 |
biscuit recipe | 286 | biscuit and blues | 33 |
dog biscuit recipe | 213 | king biscuit flower hour | 32 |
sea biscuit | 190 | bed biscuit | 31 |
disco biscuit | 172 | buttermilk biscuit recipe | 31 |
dog biscuit | 147 | biscuit homemade | 31 |
limp biscuit | 132 | anzac biscuit | 30 |
biscuit montgomery | 118 | tea biscuit | 29 |
biscuit joiner | 81 | baking powder biscuit | 29 |
biscuit lobster red | 62 | bedding biscuit company warm | 26 |
biscuit and gravy | 57 | biscuit jointer | 25 |
gorilla biscuit | 55 | biscuit lard | 24 |
bay biscuit cheddar | 55 | biscuit movie sea | 24 |
biscuit gravy recipe | 52 | king biscuit blues festival | 24 |
jessicas biscuit | 48 | half man half biscuit | 23 |
buttermilk biscuit | 42 | homemade biscuit recipe | 23 |
biscuit lobster recipe red | 41 | warm biscuit bedding | 23 |
biscuit cheese | 38 | biscuit manufacturer | 22 |
whisker biscuit | 37 | biscuit cheese lobster red | 22 |
homemade dog biscuit | 36 | baseball biscuit | 21 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "biscuit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | biskotë (bisque, cookie, gateau, sponge cake), biskota (cookie), peksimadhe (rusk), galetë (dry stick, hardtack, pilot biscuit, pilot bread, sea biscuit, ship's biscuit). (various references) | |
Arabic | فخار (crock, crockery, porcelain, pottery, pride, stoneware), لون أسمر شاحب, رقاق (leaf), بسكويت. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | míkkskapayini. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | светлокафяв цвят, неглазиран порцелан, бисквит. (various references) | |
Catalan | galeta (cookie). (various references) | |
Chamorro | biskuchu. (various references) | |
Chinese | 饼干, 餅乾 (cookie, cracker), 餑 (cake). (various references) | |
Cornish | tesen gales. (various references) | |
Czech | sušenka (cookie, cracker, shortbread). (various references) | |
Danish | kiks (cookie). (various references) | |
Dutch | biscuit (cookie). (various references) | |
Esperanto | biskvito (cookie). (various references) | |
Farsi | کلوچه خشک , بیسکویت (Cookie, Cooky). (various references) | |
Finnish | voileipäkeksi, valujäte (slug), keksi (boat-hook, cracker), kakku (cake, fruit-cake). (various references) | |
French | biscuit. (various references) | |
German | Keks (cookie, cracker), Brötchen (bread roll, bun, roll), Biskuit (cookie, sponge, spongecake). (various references) | |
Greek | μπισκότο (cookie, cracker). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | biskota (cookie). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מרקוע (griddlecake, wafer, water biscuit), תופין (cake, pastry), עוגיה (cookie, crumpet, snap), בסקויט, רקיק (snap, tenuous, wafer), צנים (rusk, toast, zwieback). (various references) | |
Hungarian | keksz (cookie, cracker, cracknel), teasütemény (crumpet, muffin, pikelet, small cakes, tea-biscuit), kétszersült (rusk, sea biscuit, zwieback). (various references) | |
Indonesian | biskuit (cracker, Dutch rusk). (various references) | |
Irish | briosca. (various references) | |
Italian | biscotto (bicuit, bisque, cookie, cracker, rusk). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ビジネススクール入学共通試験 (BIS, -bis, bisque, business hotel, business leadership, business loan, business model, business partner, business produce, business school entrance test, businesslike, businessman, GMAT, screw, viscose, vision, visual, visual communication, visual design, visual display, visual flight, visual language, visual merchandising, visualization, visualize). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ビスケット . (various references) | |
Korean | 건빵. (various references) | |
Manx | biskee. (various references) | |
Norwegian | kjeks (cookie, cornet). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iscuitbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | biscoito (cookie, shortcake), bolacha (cracker, snap, soda cracker). (various references) | |
Romanian | biscuit (cooky, hardtack, rusk), prãjiturã (cake), pesmet (cake). (various references) | |
Romansch | biscuit. (various references) | |
Russian | галета (hardtack, sea-biscuit, ship biscuit). (various references) | |
Scottish | briosgaid (a biscuit, cookie). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | biskvit, dvopek (melba toast, zwieback). (various references) | |
Spanish | galleta (cookie, cracker, sea biscuit, wafer), bizcocho (bicuit, bisque, cake, cookie, parkin, sponge). (various references) | |
Swahili | biskuti (cookie). (various references) | |
Swedish | skorpa (crust, rusk, scab, zwieback), kex, kaka (cake, cookie, pastry, slab). (various references) | |
Tagalog | biskuwit (cookie). (various references) | |
Thai | ที่มีสีน้ำตาลอ่อน. (various references) | |
Turkish | bisküvi (cookie, cooky, cracker), bísküví (cookie), kuru pasta, kurabiye (cookie, cooky, shortbread, shortcake), açık kahverengi (ecru, fawn, fawn colored, fawn coloured), çörek (bun, cake, cookie, tea bread, tea cake, tuck). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сухе печиво (cracknel). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nâu nhạt, màu nâu nhạt, màu bánh quy. (various references) | |
Welsh | bisged (cookie). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| German | 100 BCE-Modern | Zweiback. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | bescuit. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "biscuit": biscuits. (additional references) | |
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"Biscuit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: basicity, Bercuit, Bichitr, Bicourt, bisacuta, biscit, biscue, biscut, bisquit, Bizkaia, Bossuet, Bozkurt, briscit, briscuit, Buscemi, ebiscite, Piscium. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "biscuit" (pronounced bi"skut) |
| 5 | -i" s k u t | brisket. |
| 4 | -s k u t | basket, breadbasket, casket, gasket, musket, wastebasket. |
| 3 | -k u t | aftermarket, advocate, affricate, Becket, blanket, bucket, certificate, circuit, cricket, hypermarket, delicate, docket, duplicate, etiquette, indelicate, intricate, jacket, junket, market, microcircuit, Newmarket, packet, patriarchate, picket, pickpocket, pocket, premarket, racket, racquet, remarket, rocket, silicate, skyrocket, socket, sprocket, straitjacket, syndicate, thicket, ticket, tourniquet, trinket, triplicate, tunicate, upmarket, wicket. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-i-i-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: bustic, cubist, cubits. | |
-2 letters: cubit, cutis, ictus. | |
-3 letters: bits, bust, buts, cist, cubs, cuts, ibis, scut, stub, suit, tics, tubs, tuis. | |
-4 letters: bis, bit, bus, but, cis, cub, cut, its, sib, sic, sit, sub, tic, tis, tub, tui, uts. | |
-5 letters: bi, is, it, si, ti, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-i-i-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: biscuits, cubistic. | |
+2 letters: bismuthic, hubristic, publicist. | |
+3 letters: cubicities, fabulistic, publicists, tubificids, urbanistic. | |
+4 letters: beauticians, incubations, justiciable, lubricities, obscurities, publicities, subcritical, subdistrict. | |
+5 letters: absolutistic, bacteriurias, bifurcations, bioacoustics, biquadratics, curabilities, cutabilities, lubrications, publications, rubrications, subdistricts, subjectivise, subjectivism, subjectivist, subjectivity, subjectivize, subscription, subsocieties. | |
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