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BREAD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked

Synonyms:

bread; breadstuff; staff of life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("bread" is a kind of...):

starches (foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread))

baked goods (foods (like breads and cakes and pastries) that are cooked in an oven)

Meronyms (substance of "bread"):

flour (fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bread"):

light bread; white bread (bread made with finely ground and usually bleached wheat flour)

wafer (thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist))

toast (slices of bread that have been toasted)

sour bread; sourdough bread (made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation is active)

simnel (a crisp bread of fine white flour)

salt-rising bread (white wheat bread raised by a salt-tolerant bacterium in a mixture of salt and either cornmeal or potato pulp)

rye bread (any of various breads made entirely or partly with rye flour)

quick bread (breads made with a leavening agent that permits immediate baking)

raisin bread (bread containing raisins)

onion bread (bread containing finely minced onions)

naan; nan (leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop)

matzah; matzo; matzoh; unleavened bread (brittle flat bread eaten at Passover)

loaf; loaf of bread (a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating)

Host (a technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass or Holy Communion)

gluten bread (bread made with gluten flour)

anadama bread (a yeast-raised bread made of white flour and cornmeal and molasses)

bap (a small loaf or roll of soft bread)

barmbrack (a rich currant cake or bun)

bread-stick; breadstick (a crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup)

Boston brown bread; brown bread (dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water)

bun; roll (small rounded bread either plain or sweet)

caraway seed bread (bread containing caraway seeds)

challah; hallah ((Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking)

cinnamon bread (bread flavored with cinnamon often containing raisins)

cracked-wheat bread (bread made with cracked wheat that has been ground fine)

cracker (a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet)

crouton (a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads)

brown bread; dark bread; whole meal bread; whole wheat bread (bread made with whole wheat flour)

English muffin (round, raised muffin cooked on a griddle; usually split and toasted before being eaten)

flatbread (any of various breads made from usually unleavened dough)

garlic bread (French or Italian bread sliced and spread with garlic butter then crisped in the oven)

Holonyms ("bread" is a part of...):

sandwich (two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them)

Derivation:

bread (cover with bread crumbs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Informal terms for money

Synonyms:

boodle; bread; cabbage; clams; dinero; dough; gelt; kale; lettuce; lolly; loot; lucre; moolah; pelf; scratch; shekels; simoleons; sugar; wampum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("bread" is a kind of...):

money (the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cover with bread crumbs

Example:

bread the pork chops before frying them

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "bread" is one way to...):

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

bread (food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I was aware of a hungry out-reaching for her, as of a starving man for bread.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Soon after five p.m. we had another meal, consisting of a small mug of coffee, and half-a-slice of brown bread.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As he journeyed he bit into a crust which remained from his Beaulieu bread, and he washed it down by a draught from a woodland stream.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Besides, that would be all recreation and indulgence, without the wholesome alloy of labour, and I do not like to eat the bread of idleness.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And it cannot be for the value of our custom now, for what is our consumption of bread, you know?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I am sure I do not care about the bread.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

We need new dietary guidelines, many of which still encourage the consumption of red meat and large amounts of bread and dairy products.

(Model shows pathway to feeding the world, SciDev.Net)

Vegetables and bread, when they indulged in such luxuries, and even fresh water, was to be procured from the mainland, which was about five miles distant.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Examples are bread, pasta, and other products made from white flour that have B vitamins added back.

(Enriched food, NCI Dictionary)

It also includes some low-protein breads, pastas and cereals.

(Phenylketonuria, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)