Biscuit vs. Cookie

Biscuitnoun

A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm: a cookie.

Biscuitnoun

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.

Biscuitnoun

(UK) A cracker.

Biscuitnoun

(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.

Biscuitnoun

A form of unglazed earthenware.

Biscuitnoun

A light brown colour.

Biscuitnoun

(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.

Biscuitnoun

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

Biscuitnoun

A handgun, especially a revolver.

Biscuitnoun

(ice hockey) A hockey puck.

Biscuitnoun

A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.

Biscuitnoun

A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card.

Biscuitnoun

Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.

Biscuitnoun

A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature.

Biscuitnoun

small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda

Biscuitnoun

any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)

Biscuitnoun

a small baked unleavened cake, typically crisp, flat, and sweet

Biscuitnoun

a small, soft round cake like a scone.

Biscuitnoun

porcelain or other pottery which has been fired but not glazed

Biscuitnoun

a light brown colour.

Biscuitnoun

a small flat piece of wood used to join two larger pieces of wood together, fitting into slots in each.

Biscuit

A biscuit is a flour-based baked food product. In most countries, particularly in the Commonwealth and Ireland, biscuits are typically hard, flat and unleavened.

Cookienoun

(North America) a small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm

Cookienoun

(UK) a sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) which (usually) has chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it

Cookienoun

(Scotland) a bun

Cookienoun

an HTTP cookie, web cookie

Cookienoun

(computing) a magic cookie

Cookienoun

a young, attractive woman

Cookienoun

the female genitalia

Cookienoun

Affectionate name for a cook.

Cookienoun

(slang) a cucoloris

Cookieverb

To send a cookie to (a user, computer, etc.).

Cookienoun

any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)

Cookienoun

the cook on a ranch or at a camp

Cookienoun

a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site

Cookienoun

a sweet biscuit.

Cookienoun

a person of a specified kind

Cookienoun

a plain bun.

Cookienoun

a packet of data sent by an Internet server to a browser, which is returned by the browser each time it subsequently accesses the same server, used to identify the user or track their access to the server.

Cookie

A cookie is a baked or cooked food that is typically small, flat and sweet. It usually contains flour, sugar, egg, and some type of oil, fat, or butter.