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| biscuit |
the British word for a small, sweet cake that is thin and crisp, baked from stiff dough. "Biscuit" often has the same meaning as "cookie." [1/3 definitions] |
| cookie |
A cookie is a sweet baked food that you hold in your hand to eat. A cookie is usually round, and it is flat or shaped like a ball. We eat cookies as a snack. Cookies are made with flour and sugar, oil or butter, and other things. Some cookies have things like chocolate or nuts in them. |
| cracker |
A cracker is a baked food made with flour, oil, water, and salt. It is thin and crisp and often eaten as a snack. It is a little like a flat cookie, but it is not usually sweet. |
| crumb |
A crumb is a tiny piece that breaks off of a cookie, cake or other baked goods. |
| every |
If every dog on your street is big, then all the dogs that live on your street are big. If you decorate every cookie that you and your mom make, all of the cookies will be decorated when you are finished. |
| gingerbread |
a type of cake or cookie flavored with ginger and molasses. |
| halves |
If you break a cookie into two parts of the same size, you get two halves. Two halves equal a whole. |
| leave1 |
When you leave something, you let it stay where it is instead of taking it away. If you leave your backpack at home, it means that you do not take the backpack with you when you go out. If you leave the last cookie, it means you don't eat that one. You let it stay on the plate. [1/7 definitions] |
| like1 |
"Like" means "as if." If someone looks like they are tired, they look the way they would look if they were tired. They might really be tired or not. If a cookie tastes like it has lemon in it, it tastes the way it would taste if there were lemon in it. It might really have lemon in it or not. [1/4 definitions] |
| quarter |
If you cut a big cookie into four parts that are all the same size, each one of the four pieces is a quarter of the cookie. Four quarters equals one whole. [1/9 definitions] |
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