Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
- noun Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life.
- noun Something that nourishes; sustenance.
- noun Means of support; livelihood.
- noun Slang Money.
- transitive verb To coat with bread crumbs, as before cooking.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In Cookery, to prepare with grated bread; cover with white of eggs and bread-crumbs.
- To make broad; spread.
- In net-making, to form in meshes: net. Also breathe, brede.
- noun A piece of embroidery; a braid.
- noun Breadth. Also
brede . - To clean by rubbing with dry bread or with a bread-crust, as a drawing.
- To provide with daily bread.
- noun A kind of food made of the flour or meal of some species of grain, by kneading it (with the addition of a little salt, and sometimes sugar) into a dough, yeast being commonly added to cause fermentation or “lightness,” and then baking it.
- noun Figuratively, food or sustenance in general.
- noun (b In New England, wheaten or rye bread containing an admixture of Indian meal: a variety of it is called specifically Boston brown bread.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To spread.
- transitive verb (Cookery) To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking.
- noun An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.
- noun See under
Aërated . - noun (fig.) means of living.
- noun See Brown bread, under
Brown . - noun See
Breadfruit . - noun Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable A
foodstuff made bybaking dough made fromcereals - noun countable Any variety of bread
- noun slang
money - verb transitive to
coat withbreadcrumbs
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun informal terms for money
- noun food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
- verb cover with bread crumbs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Prepare the roasting tin by buttering a slice of bread and laying the pheasant on its side on the slice of bread***.
roast pheas·ant 2006
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Prepare the roasting tin by buttering a slice of bread and laying the pheasant on its side on the slice of bread***.
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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All bread is better, if naturally sweet, without the soda; but _sour bread_ you should never eat, if you desire good health.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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You have got its corn laws repealed for it; try if you cannot get corn laws established for it dealing in a better bread; bread made of that old enchanted Arabian grain, the Sesame, which opens doors; doors not of robbers, but of Kings Treasuries.
Sesame and Lilies. Lecture I.-Sesame: Of Kings’ Treasuries 1909
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If the alum be omitted, the bread has a slight yellowish grey hue -- as may be seen in the instance of what is called _home-made bread_, of private families.
A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy Friedrich Christian Accum 1803
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_bread_, whereas, when other leavening agents are used, the bread is referred to as _hot bread_, or _quick bread_, as is fully explained in another Section.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads
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"As the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it (_the earth_) bring forth and bud (_not first bud, bear seed, and then bring forth_), that it (_the earth_) may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater (_man being the only sower of seed and eater of bread_): so shall my Word be (_the Word of
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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"Ah!" she said, speaking in a terrible voice, "you knew, you must have known -- friends and cousins and brothers, ay, daughters too -- that bread -- _bread_!
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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I have a zucchini and chocolate bread I have recently become fond of and I must say that this pumpkin bread is now going to make an appearance at my home!
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I think the "mountain bread" is identified as Armenian, and it really is super-thin.
More Food Love. Michele 2007
chained_bear commented on the word bread
Captured at Yorktown, "520 bags bread, (weight) 59,600 lb."
October 29, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word bread
"Crust of Bread Found!" can be partially seen on this page.
January 15, 2009
brobbins commented on the word bread
World above (heaven)
July 24, 2009
oroboros commented on the word bread
According to an NPR piece I heard today, Lester Young, the great saxophonist coined the slang usage of the word "bread" to mean money. See also, "cool"
August 28, 2009