What's the difference between biscuit and cookie?

Biscuit


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.
  • (n.) A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A whole website ( nicecupofteaandasitdown.com ) is now dedicated to choosing the best biscuit for the job.
  • (2) The discount retailer, which sells products ranging from biscuits to dog food and washing-up liquid, said total sales increased more than 12% to nearly £350m in the three months to the end of December.
  • (3) Hence the nerves, hence the curtain twitching, hence the good tea cups and posh biscuits laid out on the table.
  • (4) In the spoiled samples, the highest total counts were 820 million in buttermilk biscuits.
  • (5) They were preparing the breakfast at our thatched hat, it was a tea and some biscuits,” Ali says.
  • (6) She almost wills her biscuits to dry out and her pies to sink.
  • (7) We evaluated the effect of a compound containing alginic acid plus antacid (extra-strength Gaviscon) versus active control antacid with equal acid-neutralizing capacity on intraesophageal acid exposure following a high-fat meal (61% fat: sausage, egg, and biscuit).
  • (8) School-age children in Chile received 30 g of wheat-flour biscuits daily through a National School Lunch Program.
  • (9) Bond doesn't expect WI sales at local fetes and markets to be affected as the biscuits and preserves "have been made in members' kitchens in limited quantities, as opposed to the WI Foods products that are produced by small-scale family manufacturers in larger quantities for the general public".
  • (10) The food they give us is biscuits, rusks and apples.
  • (11) Guar gum was incorporated into 10 g carbohydrate portions of cheese biscuits and 20 g carbohydrate portions of pizza and egg and bacon flan.
  • (12) During a metabolic ward study, the addition of dietary fiber in the form of wheat bran biscuits to the diet of five volunteer subjects resulted in an increase in the stool wet weight and fecal solids.
  • (13) The dog biscuits were completely consumed significantly more often than the baits (155 of 176 [88%] for the biscuits versus 89 of 176 [50.5%] for the four baits; P less than 10(-6)), but were chewed for a significantly shorter time than the baits (mean time 34 sec for the biscuit versus 60-82 sec for the four baits: P less than 0.001).
  • (14) Guests can choose from pancakes, eggs Benedict, homemade granola, fresh cinnamon rolls, sausage, “biscuits”, hash browns and scones.
  • (15) For the 600 hostages snacking on biscuits and chocolate, there is no sleep, no beds, no hot food, no hot drinks, no toilet paper, no washing facilities, a meagre supply of medicines - and, apparently, a deepening bond between the hostage takers and their victims.
  • (16) The message is clear: Clinton is the elderly grandmother who comes round for tea and biscuits and then has to be driven home when she falls asleep in front of Jeopardy.
  • (17) ANSWERS: Maths 1 C 2 11am 3 40cm Reading 1 C 2 Fine Foods Ltd 3 Answer must refer to fact that the best before dates identify the batches of biscuits that are affected.
  • (18) Unlike the multi-racial community living and working in Woodstock , Cape Town’s oldest suburb, the vast majority of the Old Biscuit Mill’s patrons are white, while many of those serving in the food market and other businesses are black, as are the car guards and beggars outside.
  • (19) Non-smokers, of both sexes, were significantly more likely than smokers to consume, frequently, fresh fruit in summer and winter, fruit juice, cooked and canned fruit, salads in summer and winter, breakfast cereals, cakes, biscuits, puddings, pasta, poultry, light desserts and preserves.
  • (20) It got off to a rocky start but intends to focus on Shanghai, where a rapidly growing new strata of Chinese society – the urban rich – has developed a taste for western brands from Prada to Gucci, along with French wine, Spanish olive oil and British biscuits and beer.

Cookie


Definition:

  • (n.) See Cooky.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
  • (2) The others received a cookie and chocolate mashed diet (C.C.
  • (3) Dietetic candies and cookies contained more calories than the regular ones.
  • (4) One way they are doing this is to replace cookies, which worked fairly well for a long time when people accepted their browsers' default configuration, which until fairly recently has been to allow most cookies.
  • (5) But the researchers discovered that far from opting out of tracking, Facebook places a new cookie on the computers of users who have not been tracked before.
  • (6) About 35 million were egg-laying hens that provided 80% of the eggs for the breaker market – eggs broken then liquefied, dried or frozen to be used in processed foods like mayonnaise and pancake mixes, or sold to bakeries to make cakes, cookies and other products.
  • (7) Davis had earlier declined the privilege of specifying his final supper, so instead was given the institution's choice of grilled cheeseburgers, oven browned potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, cookies and a grape beverage.
  • (8) In short, cookies are never your friend, and clear your history if you want any chance of a future.
  • (9) EU privacy law states that prior consent must be given before issuing a cookie or performing tracking, unless it is necessary for either the networking required to connect to the service (“criterion A”) or to deliver a service specifically requested by the user (“criterion B”).
  • (10) Ingestion of 5-gram portions of cookies made with defined concentrations of sucrose or fat led to an increased Ip (due to demineralization) of Streptococcus mutans-covered bovine enamel blocks in vivo.
  • (11) July 22, 2014 Best food porn: Chris Stewart (R-UT) These are cookies shaped like Utah.
  • (12) For a while, the “Washington consensus” imposed cookie-cutter market-based prescriptions on countries that needed to borrow money.
  • (13) The "cookie cutter" is easily implemented into any department's existing block cutting techniques.
  • (14) The girl said she had performed “oral sex on French soldiers in exchange for a bottle of water and a sachet of cookies”, the statement from Hussein’s office said.
  • (15) Almost every major website uses cookies to serve targeted advertising and content, as well as streamline the experience for the user, for example by managing logins.
  • (16) According to the indictment, not only did the hackers write authentication cookies for use on their own computers, they were also able to forge cookies, upload them to Yahoo’s system and push them to individual users they wished to target, according to the indictment.
  • (17) In the last two years, a man dressed as Sesame Street's Cookie Monster was charged with shoving a two-year-old, a person attired in Super Mario's overalls was accused of groping a woman and an Elmo figure pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after unleashing an antisemitic tirade.
  • (18) Since by definition social plug-ins are destined to members of a particular social network, they are not of any use for non-members, and therefore do not match ‘criterion B’ for those users.” The same applies for users of Facebook who are logged out at the time, while logged-in users should only be served a “session cookie” that expires when the user logs out or closes their browser, according to Article 29.
  • (19) Wheat germ and sunflower kernels were substituted at a level of 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 percent of wheat flour for the preparation of cookies.
  • (20) When offered a choice between chunks of lab chow and Ginger Snaps, DMNL rats were again hypophagic on lab chow chunks, ate the same as the controls of the cookies, and the total caloric intake was of the same magnitude and pattern as observed in previous tests.