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Bread

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Noun

1. bread, breadstuff, staff of life

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

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

informal terms for money

Verb

3. bread

cover with bread crumbs

Example Sentences:
'bread the pork chops before frying them'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Bread

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noun
1. 
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. Christianity
a small loaf, piece of bread, or wafer of unleavened bread used in the Eucharist
5.  bread and circuses
6.  break bread
7.  cast one's bread upon the waters
8.  know which side one's bread is buttered
9.  take the bread out of someone's mouth
verb
10. (transitive)
to cover with breadcrumbs before cooking
breaded veal

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Bread

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noun
1. 
a. 
a food baked from a leavened, kneaded dough made with flour or meal, water, yeast, etc.
b. 
a similar food, as matzo, that is not leavened and so remains flat when baked
2. 
any baked food like bread but made with a batter
quick breads, corn bread
3. 
food generally
4. 
the means of living; livelihood
to earn one's bread
5.  Slang
money
verb transitive
6. 
to cover with bread crumbs before cooking

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Bread

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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.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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