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# biscuit

noun (a biscuit, biscuits)

«biscuit» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biscuit/#m1)
2. In the USA and Canada, a biscuit is a small soft bread roll, often eaten with gravy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biscuit/#m2)
3. A dog biscuit is a hard treat for dogs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biscuit/#m3)
4. A biscuit can also be a hard, plain biscuit carried on long journeys, not only a sweet treat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biscuit/#m4)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biscuit/#x1)
- Grandma keeps biscuits in a tin. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biscuit/#x2)
- Share the 20 biscuits equally among 5 friends: 4 each. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biscuit/#x3)
- Chocolate biscuits are my favourite. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biscuit/#x4)
- In America, biscuits are eaten with butter and gravy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biscuit/#x5)
- Don't feed the dog chocolate biscuits; chocolate is poisonous to dogs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biscuit/#x6)
- Give the dog a dog biscuit as a treat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biscuit/#x7)
- Ask before you take a biscuit. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biscuit/#x8)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biscuit/#x9)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/biscuit/#x1)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «biscuit» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biscuit/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«biscuit» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/biscuit.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «biscuit» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/biscuit/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«biscuit» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/biscuit.html) on Mova free.