biscuit

Everyday

1. In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, a biscuit is a small flat sweet baked treat, called a cookie in the USA. tree →
2. In the USA and Canada, a biscuit is a small soft bread roll, often eaten with gravy. tree →
3. A dog biscuit is a hard treat for dogs. tree →
4. A biscuit can also be a hard, plain biscuit carried on long journeys, not only a sweet treat. tree →

In the lessons

In everyday life, biscuits come with tea or as a snack; children learn to share biscuits fairly and ask before taking one. In maths, biscuits often appear in sharing and division problems: 12 biscuits shared equally among 4 children gives 3 each. Phrases: a packet of biscuits, biscuit tin, chocolate biscuit, dog biscuit, take the biscuit.

Examples

• Would you like a biscuit with your milk? tree →
• Grandma keeps biscuits in a tin. tree →
• Share the 20 biscuits equally among 5 friends: 4 each. tree →
• Chocolate biscuits are my favourite. tree →
• In America, biscuits are eaten with butter and gravy. tree →
• Don't feed the dog chocolate biscuits; chocolate is poisonous to dogs. tree →
• Give the dog a dog biscuit as a treat. tree →
• Ask before you take a biscuit. tree →
• Now the Pope had a few biscuits in his cassock, and the companion he had picked up had a couple of small loaves.[456] tree →

Note

Spelling trap: biscuit has a silent u and i: said «BIS-kit». British biscuit = American cookie; American biscuit is like a British scone. «That takes the biscuit» (British) means that is the most annoying or surprising thing.

In Jewish tradition

A hard, dry kind of bread or cake. In the primary lessons: In everyday life, biscuits come with tea or as a snack; children learn to share biscuits fairly and ask before taking one. In maths, biscuits often appear in sharing and division problems: 12 biscuits shared equally among 4 children gives 3 each. Phrases: a packet of biscuits, biscuit tin, chocolate biscuit, dog biscuit, take the biscuit.

Examples

• And take with thee ten loaves, and biscuits, and a cruse of honey, and go to him; he will tell thee what shall become of the child.' (Prophets 1KI.14.3, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Spelling trap: biscuit has a silent u and i: said «BIS-kit». British biscuit = American cookie; American biscuit is like a British scone. «That takes the biscuit» (British) means that is the most annoying or surprising thing.