BREAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bread mean? 

• BREAD (noun)
  The noun BREAD has 2 senses:

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

2. informal terms for money

  Familiarity information: BREAD used as a noun is rare.

• BREAD (verb)
  The verb BREAD has 1 sense:

1. cover with bread crumbs

  Familiarity information: BREAD used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

bread; breadstuff; staff of life

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"):

bap (a small loaf or roll of soft 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

cinnamon bread (bread flavored with cinnamon often containing raisins)

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)

caraway seed bread (bread containing caraway seeds)

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

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

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

barmbrack (a rich currant cake or bun)

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

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

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

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

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

• BREAD (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cover with bread crumbs

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

bread the pork chops before frying them

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)

 Context examples 

Then she gave him the dry bread.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

They made their bread with baking-powder.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

That seemed a hard question to answer, and Laurie began to wish he had to work for his daily bread.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When I had money enough, I used to get half-a-pint of ready-made coffee and a slice of bread and butter.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The high-fibre bread analysed during the study is especially suitable for breakfast.

(Researchers reveal potential of bread that suppresses appetite, University of Granada)

I often got honey out of hollow trees, which I mingled with water, or ate with my bread.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And the little gnats of men sting his memory when they get their very bread and butter from the technical application of his ideas.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Dorothy saw at once that this was true, so she only nodded and went on eating her bread.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the instant a score of the famished brutes were scrambling for the bread and bacon.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)