bread

bread: noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ fresh

▪ hard, mouldy/moldy, soggy, stale

▪ This bread is going stale.

▪ crusty

▪ loaves of crusty French bread

▪ sliced

▪ unleavened

▪ organic

▪ home-baked, home-made

▪ fried (esp. BrE), toasted

▪ banana, garlic

▪ black, brown, corn, granary, naan (esp. BrE), pitta/pita, pumpernickel (esp. AmE), rye, soda, sourdough, wheat, white, wholegrain, wholemeal (BrE), wholewheat

▪ seven-grain, etc.

… OF BREAD

▪ loaf

▪ package (AmE)

▪ chunk, crumb, crust, hunk, morsel, piece, slice

▪ She tore off a large hunk of bread.

VERB + BREAD

▪ bake, make

▪ the smell of freshly baked bread

▪ cut, slice

▪ butter, put sth on, spread

▪ bread thickly spread with peanut butter

▪ toast

BREAD + NOUN

▪ dough

▪ pudding (esp. BrE), roll, sauce (esp. BrE)

▪ basket, bin (BrE), box (AmE), knife

PREPOSITION

▪ on bread

▪ What would you like on your bread?

PHRASES

▪ bread and butter, bread and margarine

▪ a plate of bread and butter

▪ bread and cheese, bread and jam (esp. BrE), bread and water

▪ He had to live on bread and water for two weeks.

▪ bread and wine (= in the Christian Communion service)

▪ People started going up to receive the bread and wine.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать курсовую

Synonyms:

Food (especially food made of grain), sustenance, aliment, nutriment, nourishment, subsistence, fare, diet, regimen, victuals, viands, provisions

Look at other dictionaries:

BREAD — (Heb. לֶחֶם, leḥem), a baked commodity from a cereal flour. The primary sense of leḥem is food in general (Gen. 37:25; Num. 28:2; I Kings 5:2; etc.). The Ugaritic lḥm has the same general sense and the same particular sense, while the Arabic… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Bread — (br[e^]d), n. [AS. bre[ a]d; akin to OFries. br[=a]d, OS. br[=o]d, D. brood, G. brod, brot, Icel. brau[eth], Sw. & Dan. br[ o]d. The root is probably that of E. brew. [root]93. See {Brew}.] 1. An article of food made from flour or meal by… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Bread — рок группа из США, образована в 1969 году в Лос Анджелесе по инициативе студийного музыканта, композитора, аранжировщика и продюсера Дэвида Гейтса (David Gates), 11.12.1940, Талса, Оклахома, США вокал, гитара, бас , клавишные (как сессионный… … Википедия
Bread — Pays d’origine Los Angeles, Californie, États Unis Genre musical Folk rock, Soft rock Années d activité 1968 1977 Labels Elektra Anciens membres David Gates Jimm … Wikipédia en Français
bread — W3S2 [bred] n [U] [: Old English;] 1.) a type of food made from flour and water that is mixed together and then baked ▪ Would you like some bread with your soup? ▪ the smell of fresh bread ▪ a loaf of bread ▪ Could you cut me a slice of bread… … Dictionary of contemporary English
bread — ► NOUN 1) food made of flour, water, and yeast mixed together and baked. 2) informal money. ● bread and butter Cf. ↑bread and butter ● bread and circuses Cf. ↑bread and circuses … English terms dictionary
bread — [ bred ] noun uncount *** 1. ) a common food made from flour, water, and usually YEAST (=a substance that makes the bread grow larger). Bread is usually sold in a large piece called a loaf or made into smaller pieces called rolls. You usually cut … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
bread — [bred] n. [ME bred < OE bread, crumb, morsel < IE * bhreu , var. of * bhereu , to ferment < base * bher , well up, seethe > BREW, BURN1, L fervere, to boil] 1. a) a food baked from a leavened, kneaded dough made with flour or meal,… … English World dictionary
bread — bread; bread·en; bread·less; clap·bread; way·bread; crisp·bread; gin·ger·bread; … English syllables
Bread — Bread, v. t. (Cookery) To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Bread — (br[e^]d), v. t. [AS. br[ae]dan to make broad, to spread. See {Broad}, a.] To spread. [Obs.] Ray. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

bread

Look at other dictionaries:

Share the article and excerpts

Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Collocations dictionary

bread

Look at other dictionaries:

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link