biscuit porcelain

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• porcelain — porcelaneous, porcellaneous /pawr seuh lay nee euhs, pohr /, adj. /pawr seuh lin, pohr ; pawrs lin, pohrs /, n. 1. a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high… …   Universalium

• biscuit — Synonyms and related words: Brussels biscuit, Melba toast, adobe, bisque, bone, bowl, brick, brownie, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, china, cookie, cracker, crock, crockery, date bar, dust, enamelware, firebrick, fruit bar, ginger snap,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• Biscuit — Bis cuit, n. [F. biscuit (cf. It. biscotto, Sp. bizcocho, Pg. biscouto), fr. L. bis twice + coctus, p. p. of coquere to cook, bake. See {Cook}, and cf. {Bisque} a kind of porcelain.] 1. A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• biscuit — ► NOUN 1) Brit. a small, flat, crisp unleavened cake. 2) N. Amer. a small, soft round cake like a scone. 3) porcelain or other pottery which has been fired but not glazed. ● take the biscuit (or chiefly N. Amer. cake) Cf. ↑take the cake …   English terms dictionary

• biscuit — [bis′kit] n. pl. biscuits or biscuit [ME bisquit, besquit < OFr bescuit (altered, under infl. of OIt biscotto) < ML biscoctum < (panis) bis coctus, (bread) twice baked < L bis, twice (see BINARY) + coctus, pp. of coquere,COOK] 1.… …   English World dictionary

• Porcelain de Sèvres — Napoleon Büste aus Biskuit Porzellan, 1811 Manufacture royale de porcelaine de Sèvres ist eine der bedeutendsten europäischen Manufakturen zur Herstellung von Porzellan. Die Manufaktur hat seit 1756 ihren Sitz in Sèvres. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• biscuit — biscuitlike, adj. /bis kit/, n. 1. a kind of bread in small, soft cakes, raised with baking powder or soda, or sometimes with yeast. 2. Chiefly Brit. a. a dry and crisp or hard bread in thin, flat cakes, made without yeast or other raising agent; …   Universalium

• biscuit — A term associated with the firing of porcelain, and applied to the fired article before glazing. May be any stage after the fluxes have flowed enough to provide rigidity to the structure up to the stage where shrinkage is complete. Referred to as …   Medical dictionary

• biscuit — noun (plural biscuits; also biscuit) Etymology: Middle English bisquite, from Anglo French besquit, from (pain) besquit twice cooked bread Date: 14th century 1. a. any of various hard or crisp dry baked products: as (1) …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• biscuit-bake — The initial bake(s) given fusing porcelain at lower than glazing temperature to control shrinkage during the process of building up the dental restoration. SYN: biscuit firing …   Medical dictionary

• biscuit — noun 1》 Brit. a small, flat, crisp unleavened cake.     ↘N. Amer. a small, soft round cake like a scone. 2》 porcelain or other pottery which has been fired but not glazed. 3》 a light brown colour. 4》 Carpentry a small flat piece of wood used to… …   English new terms dictionary