Keks — 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).
• cookie noun (chiefly US) A small, flat, sweet baked treat.
• snap verb To break suddenly with a sharp cracking sound.

Senses

Keks is used for these senses in English:

• 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.
• cookie (North America, Philippines) A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
• cookie (UK, Commonwealth) A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.
• snap A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.

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.

cookie — full definition

1. noun (chiefly US) A small, flat, sweet baked treat.
2. noun (computing) A small piece of data a website stores on a visitor's device to remember information between visits.

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