Pancake vs. Pikelet: What's the Difference?

A thin cake made of batter that is poured onto a hot greased surface and cooked on both sides until brown. Also called flannel cake, flapjack, griddle cake, hotcake; also called regionally battercake.

A thick type of sweet pancake.

To cause (an aircraft) to make a pancake landing.

(UK) A thin crumpet.

To make a pancake landing.

Any crumpet, regardless of thickness

To fall flat to the ground with great force, especially to collapse in such a way that higher floors or structures fall directly on the ones beneath.

A light, thin cake or muffin.

A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:

In England, an often unleavened cake similar to a crepe.

In the US (and e.g. Scotland), a leavened, thicker, fluffier cake.

(theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.

(juggling) A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.

Anything very thin and flat.

Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.

A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.

(volleyball) A defensive play in which the ball bounces off the top of a hand that has been pressed flat against the floor.

(intransitive) To make a pancake landing.

To collapse one floor after another.

(transitive) To flatten violently.

A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack.

A flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle