Biscuit vs. Wafer

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.

Wafernoun

A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.

Wafernoun

(religion) A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion.

Wafernoun

A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc.

Wafernoun

(electronics) A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.

Waferverb

(transitive) To seal or close with a wafer.

Wafernoun

A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.

Wafernoun

A thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church.

Wafernoun

An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, - used in sealing letters and other documents.

Wafernoun

Any thin but rigid plate of solid material, esp. of discoidal shape; - a term used commonly to refer to the thin slices of silicon used as starting material for the manufacture of integrated circuits.

Waferverb

To seal or close with a wafer.

Wafernoun

a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters

Wafernoun

a small thin crisp cake or cookie

Wafernoun

thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist)

Wafer

A wafer is a crisp, often sweet, very thin, flat, light and dry cookie, often used to decorate ice cream, and also used as a garnish on some sweet dishes. Wafers can also be made into cookies with cream flavoring sandwiched between them.