keksi — meaning in English

English meaning

• biscuit noun A small, flat baked snack, either crisp (British sense, like a cookie) or soft and flaky (American sense, like a scone).
• cake noun A sweet baked dessert made from flour, sugar, eggs, and other ingredients.
• cookie noun (chiefly US) A small, flat, sweet baked treat.

Senses

keksi is used for these senses in English:

• HTTP cookie (Internet) A packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser and then returned by the browser each time it accesses that server, used to maintain state between otherwise stateless HTTP transactions, for example, to identify the user.
• biscuit (UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sometimes, Canada, rare) A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
• biscuit (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.
• cake A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
• cake A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
• pike pole A particular kind of long tool with various uses in firefighting and similar in timber rafting

biscuit — full definition

1. noun A small, flat baked snack, either crisp (British sense, like a cookie) or soft and flaky (American sense, like a scone).
2. noun Unglazed pottery that has been fired once but not yet coated with glaze.
3. noun Slang for a hockey puck.

cake — full definition

1. noun A sweet baked dessert made from flour, sugar, eggs, and other ingredients.
2. verb To coat something thickly, or to harden into a solid crusted layer.

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