SPAGHETTI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spaghetti mean? 

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

1. spaghetti served with a tomato sauce

2. pasta in the form of long strings

  Familiarity information: SPAGHETTI used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPAGHETTI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spaghetti served with a tomato sauce

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

pasta (a dish that contains pasta as its main ingredient)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pasta in the form of long strings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

alimentary paste; pasta (shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg)

 Context examples 

The internal structure of organic semiconductors tends to be highly disordered, like a plate of spaghetti.

(Certain organic semiconducting materials can transport spin faster than they conduct charge, University of Cambridge)