biscuit

«biscuit» in Mova's school dictionary: In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, a biscuit… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a biscuit, biscuits)

meaning for a pupil

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 →

sense 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 the corpora

• "I'm being good today" about food is just a phrase; eating a biscuit does not make anyone bad.
• In the locker: «biscuits, potted lobster, sardines».
• They hunt and find sardines, biscuits and a sausage.
• Moving house is hard, and a welcome, like a card or some biscuits, helps a new family feel at home.
• He lost his pudding, and Mum said it was more for the lie than for the biscuits.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «biscuit» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.