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.


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  • 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

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  • 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

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