a food; to coat with bread crumbs: bread the pork chops Not to be confused with: bred – brought about; engendered; raised: born and bred in Iowa Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree Copyright © 2007, 2013 by Mary Embree n. 1. A staple food made from flour or meal mixed with other dry and liquid ingredients, usually combined with a leavening agent, and kneaded, shaped into loaves, and baked. 2. a. Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life: "If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second"
(Edward Bellamy). b. Something that nourishes; sustenance: "My bread shall be the anguish of my mind" (Edmund Spenser). 3. a. Means of support; livelihood: earn one's bread. b. Slang Money. tr.v. bread·ed, bread·ing, breads To coat with bread crumbs, as before cooking: breaded the fish fillets.bread
bread
(brĕd)
[Middle English, from Old English brēad; see bhreu- in Indo-European roots. N., sense 3b, possibly from Cockney rhyming slang bread and honey.]
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bread
(brɛd)n
1. (Cookery) a food made from a dough of flour or meal mixed with water or milk, usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
2. necessary food; nourishment: give us our daily bread.
3. a slang word for money
4. (Ecclesiastical Terms) Christianity a small loaf, piece of bread, or wafer of unleavened bread used in the Eucharist
5. bread and circuses something offered as a means of distracting attention from a problem or grievance
6. break bread See break46
7. cast one's bread upon the waters to do good without expectation of advantage or return
8. know which side one's bread is buttered to know what to do in order to keep one's advantages
9. take the bread out of someone's mouth to deprive someone of a livelihood
vb
(Cookery) (tr) to cover with breadcrumbs before cooking: breaded veal.
[Old English brēad; related to Old Norse braud, Old Frisian brād, Old High German brōt]
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bread
(brɛd)n.
1. a baked food made of a dough or batter containing flour or meal, milk or water, and often yeast or another leavening agent.
2. food or sustenance; livelihood: to earn one's bread.
3. Slang. money.
v.t.4. to coat with breadcrumbs.
Idioms:break bread, to eat a meal, esp. with others.
[before 950; Middle English breed, Old English brēad fragment, bread; c. Old High German brot, Old Norse brauth]
bread′less, adj.
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bread
- In Old English, it meant "piece, morsel," while actual bread was known as "loaf."See also related terms for loaf.
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bread
Past participle: breaded
Gerund: breading
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bread
To coat food with breadcrumbs, biscuit crumbs or cereal crumbs.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
starches - foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread) flour - fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain baked goods - foods (like breads and cakes and pastries) that are cooked in an oven 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 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 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 crouton - a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads 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 Host - a technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass or Holy Communion loaf,
loaf of bread - a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating naan, nan - leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop onion bread - bread
containing finely minced onions quick bread - breads made with a leavening agent that permits immediate baking rye bread - any of various breads made entirely or partly with rye flour salt-rising bread - white wheat bread raised by a salt-tolerant
bacterium in a mixture of salt and either cornmeal or potato pulp simnel - a crisp bread of fine white flour sour bread, sourdough bread - made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation is active toast - slices of bread that have been toasted wafer - thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist) light bread, white bread - bread made
with finely ground and usually bleached wheat flour sandwich - two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them boodle, clams, dinero,
gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, moolah,
pelf, shekels, simoleons, wampum, loot, dough,
cabbage, sugar, scratch money - the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender; "we tried to collect the money he owed us" cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he
left the preparation of meals to his wife" cover - provide with a covering or cause to be covered; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers" Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc. noun 1. food, provisions, fare,
necessities, subsistence, kai (N.Z. informal), nourishment, sustenance,
victuals, nutriment, viands, aliment I go to work, I put bread on the table, I pay the mortgage. 2. (Slang)
money, funds, cash, finance, necessary (informal), silver,
tin (slang), brass (Northern English dialect), dough (slang), dosh (Brit. & Austral. slang), needful
(informal), shekels (informal), wonga (slang), dibs (slang), ackers (slang), spondulicks (slang), rhino (Brit. slang) a period in which you could earn your bread by the sweat of your brow bagel or beigel, baguette, bap, barm cake (dialect), barmbrack (Irish), barm cake (Lancashire), batch loaf, billy-bread (N.Z.), black bread, bloomer, bridge roll, brioche, brown bread, loaf, or roll, bun, buttery (Scot.), challah or
hallah, chapati or chapatti, ciabatta, cob, coburg, corn bread, corn pone, or Indian bread (U.S.), cottage loaf, croissant, damper (Austral.), farmhouse, focaccia, French bread, French stick, fruit loaf, Granary (trademark), gluten bread, griddlebread, half-quartern, johnny cake, long tin, matzo, matzoh, matza, or matzah, muffin, naan or nan, pan bread or loaf (Scot.), paratha, pitta, plain bread or loaf (Scot.), plait,
poppadom or poppadum, pumpernickel, puri, quartern, roll, roti, rye bread or rye, schnecken, soda bread, sourdough, split tin, square tin, stollen, tortilla, unleavened bread, wheaten bread, white bread, loaf, or roll, wholemeal or (esp. U.S. & Canad.) whole-wheatNoun
1.
2.
Verb
1.
bread - cover with bread crumbs; "bread the pork chops before frying them" bread
Breads
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
bread
noun1. Something fit to be eaten:
aliment, comestible, diet, edible, esculent, fare, food, foodstuff, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pap, provender, provision (used in plural), sustenance, victual.
2. That which sustains the mind or spirit:
3. The means needed to support life:
alimentation, alimony, bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, maintenance, subsistence, support, sustenance, upkeep.
4. Slang. Something, such as coins or printed bills, used as a medium of exchange:
Chiefly British: brass.
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Translations
парихляб chlébchlebaživobytí brøddaglige brød pano leib نان leipäleivittääpätäkkä kruh kenyér roti brauðbrauîpeningurviîurværi パン 식빵 panis duonaduondavysmalti
džiuvėsėliaipragyvenimaspragyvenimo šaltinis maizedienišķā maizeiztika pâine chlieb kruh bröd ขนมปัง хліб bánh mìbột Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997,
2000, 2003, 2005 [ˈbrɛd] n → pain m (= money) →
fric mbread and butter n (= buttered bread) → tartines fpl (beurrées)bread
brown bread → pain m complet
white bread →
pain m blanc
to know which side one's bread is buttered, to know which side one's bread is buttered on → savoir où est son intérêt
to earn one's daily bread
→ gagner son pain, gagner sa vie
a loaf of bread → un pain
(= livelihood) → gagne-pain m invbread-and-butter [ˌbrɛdənˈbʌtər] adj [issues, matters] → de basebread basket breadbasket [ˈbrɛdbɑːskət] n (= area, region) → grenier m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
bread
n
→ Brot nt; a piece of bread and butter → ein Butterbrot nt; we just had bread and butter → wir aßen nur Brot mit Butter; he was put on (dry) bread and water → er saß bei Wasser und (trocken) Brot; he knows which side his bread is buttered (on) → er weiß, wo was zu holen ist; bread and circuses → Brot und Spiele pl
(inf: = money) → Kohle f (inf)
bread
:
bread-and-butter letter, bread-and-butter note
n → Bedankemichbrief m
bread-and-butter pudding
n → Brotauflauf m
breadfruit
n → Brotfrucht f
breadline
n Schlange vor einer Nahrungsmittelausgabestelle to be on the bread (fig) → nur das Allernotwendigste zum Leben haben
bread sauce
n → Brottunke f
breadstick
n → Knabberstange f
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bread
(bred) noun1. a type of food made of flour or meal baked. bread and butter.
2. one's living. This is how I earn my daily bread.
ˈbreadcrumbs noun pluralvery tiny pieces of bread. Dip the fish in egg and breadcrumbs.
ˈbreadwinner nouna person who earns money to keep a family. When her husband died she had to become the breadwinner.
bread and butter(a way of earning) one's living. Writing novels is my bread and butter.
on the breadlinewith barely enough to live on. The widow and her children are on the breadline.
bread and butter takes a singular verb.
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bread
→ خُبْز chléb brød Brot ψωμί pan leipä pain kruh pane パン 식빵 brood brød chleb pão хлеб bröd ขนมปัง ekmek bánh mì 面包Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
bread
n. pan;
___ and butter → ___ y mantequilla.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
- Would you like some bread?
- Please bring more bread
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