bread
(redirected from breads)Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia.
bread
a food; to coat with bread crumbs: bread the pork chops
Not to be confused with:
bred – brought about; engendered; raised: born and bred in Iowa
Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree Copyright © 2007, 2013 by Mary Embree
bread
(brĕd)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.
[Middle English, from Old English brēad; see bhreu- in Indo-European roots. N., sense 3b, possibly from Cockney rhyming slang bread and honey.]
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
bread
(brɛd)n
1. (Cookery) 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. (Ecclesiastical Terms) Christianity a small loaf, piece of bread, or wafer of unleavened bread used in the Eucharist
5. bread and circuses something offered as a means of distracting attention from a problem or grievance
6. break bread See break46
7. cast one's bread upon the waters to do good without expectation of advantage or return
8. know which side one's bread is buttered to know what to do in order to keep one's advantages
9. take the bread out of someone's mouth to deprive someone of a livelihood
vb
(Cookery) (tr) to cover with breadcrumbs before cooking: breaded veal.
[Old English brēad; related to Old Norse braud, Old Frisian brād, Old High German brōt]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
bread
(brɛd)n.
1. a baked food made of a dough or batter containing flour or meal, milk or water, and often yeast or another leavening agent.
2. food or sustenance; livelihood: to earn one's bread.
3. Slang. money.
v.t. 4. to coat with breadcrumbs.
Idioms: break bread, to eat a meal, esp. with others.
[before 950; Middle English breed, Old English brēad fragment, bread; c. Old High German brot, Old Norse brauth]
bread′less, adj.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
bread
- In Old English, it meant "piece, morsel," while actual bread was known as "loaf."See also related terms for loaf.
Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
bread
Past participle: breaded
Gerund: breading
| Imperative |
|---|
| bread |
| bread |
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
bread
To coat food with breadcrumbs, biscuit crumbs or cereal crumbs.
Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Switch to new thesaurus
| Noun | 1. |  bread - food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then bakedstarches - foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread) flour - fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain baked goods - foods (like breads and cakes and pastries) that are cooked in an oven anadama bread - a yeast-raised bread made of white flour and cornmeal and molasses bap - a small loaf or roll of soft bread barmbrack - a rich currant cake or bun breadstick, bread-stick - a crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup Boston brown bread, brown bread - dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water caraway seed bread - bread containing caraway seeds 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 cinnamon bread - bread flavored with cinnamon often containing raisins cracked-wheat bread - bread made with cracked wheat that has been ground fine crouton - a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads English muffin - round, raised muffin cooked on a griddle; usually split and toasted before being eaten flatbread - any of various breads made from usually unleavened dough garlic bread - French or Italian bread sliced and spread with garlic butter then crisped in the oven gluten bread - bread made with gluten flour Host - a technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass or Holy Communion loaf, loaf of bread - a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating onion bread - bread containing finely minced onions raisin bread - bread containing raisins quick bread - breads made with a leavening agent that permits immediate baking rye bread - any of various breads made entirely or partly with rye flour salt-rising bread - white wheat bread raised by a salt-tolerant bacterium in a mixture of salt and either cornmeal or potato pulp simnel - a crisp bread of fine white flour sour bread, sourdough bread - made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation is active toast - slices of bread that have been toasted wafer - thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist) light bread, white bread - bread made with finely ground and usually bleached wheat flour sandwich - two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them |
| 2. |  bread - informal terms for money boodle, clams, dinero, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, moolah, pelf, shekels, simoleons, wampum, loot, dough, cabbage, sugar, scratch money - the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender; "we tried to collect the money he owed us" | |
| Verb | 1. | bread - cover with bread crumbs; "bread the pork chops before frying them" cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" cover - provide with a covering or cause to be covered; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers" |
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
bread
noun
1. food, provisions, fare, necessities, subsistence, kai (N.Z. informal), nourishment, sustenance, victuals, nutriment, viands, aliment I go to work, I put bread on the table, I pay the mortgage.
2. (Slang) money, funds, cash, finance, necessary (informal), silver, tin (slang), brass (Northern English dialect), dough (slang), dosh (Brit. & Austral. slang), needful (informal), shekels (informal), wonga (slang), dibs (slang), ackers (slang), spondulicks (slang), rhino (Brit. slang) a period in which you could earn your bread by the sweat of your brow
Breads
bagel or beigel, baguette, bap, barm cake (dialect), barmbrack (Irish), barm cake (Lancashire), batch loaf, billy-bread (N.Z.), black bread, bloomer, bridge roll, brioche, brown bread, loaf, or roll, bun, buttery (Scot.), challah or hallah, chapati or chapatti, ciabatta, cob, coburg, corn bread, corn pone, or Indian bread (U.S.), cottage loaf, croissant, damper (Austral.), farmhouse, focaccia, French bread, French stick, fruit loaf, Granary (trademark), gluten bread, griddlebread, half-quartern, johnny cake, long tin, matzo, matzoh, matza, or matzah, muffin, naan or nan, pan bread or loaf (Scot.), paratha, pitta, plain bread or loaf (Scot.), plait, poppadom or poppadum, pumpernickel, puri, quartern, roll, roti, rye bread or rye, schnecken, soda bread, sourdough, split tin, square tin, stollen, tortilla, unleavened bread, wheaten bread, white bread, loaf, or roll, wholemeal or (esp. U.S. & Canad.) whole-wheatCollins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
bread
noun1. Something fit to be eaten:
2. That which sustains the mind or spirit:
3. The means needed to support life:
The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Translations
خبزخُبْزرزق، قوت
парихляб
chlébchlebaživobytí
brøddaglige brød
pano
leib
نان
leipäleivittääpätäkkä
kruh
kenyér
roti
brauðbrauîpeningurviîurværi
パン
식빵
panis
duonaduondavysmalti džiuvėsėliaipragyvenimaspragyvenimo šaltinis
maizedienišķā maizeiztika
pâine
chlieb
kruh
bröd
ขนมปัง
хліб
bánh mìbột
bread
[bred]A. N
1. (= food) → pan m
white/brown/rye/wholemeal bread → pan m blanco/moreno/de centeno/integral
bread and butter → pan m con mantequilla (fig) (= living) → pan de cada día
to be on bread and water → estar a pan y agua
the bread and wine (Rel) → el pan y el vino
to break bread with → sentarse a la mesa con
to cast one's bread on the waters → hacer el bien sin mirar a quién
to earn one's daily bread → ganarse el pan
to know which side one's bread is buttered (on) → saber dónde aprieta el zapato
to take the bread out of sb's mouth → quitar el pan de la boca de algn
man cannot live by bread alone → no sólo de pan vive el hombre
see also bread-and-butter
white/brown/rye/wholemeal bread → pan m blanco/moreno/de centeno/integral
bread and butter → pan m con mantequilla (fig) (= living) → pan de cada día
to be on bread and water → estar a pan y agua
the bread and wine (Rel) → el pan y el vino
to break bread with → sentarse a la mesa con
to cast one's bread on the waters → hacer el bien sin mirar a quién
to earn one's daily bread → ganarse el pan
to know which side one's bread is buttered (on) → saber dónde aprieta el zapato
to take the bread out of sb's mouth → quitar el pan de la boca de algn
man cannot live by bread alone → no sólo de pan vive el hombre
see also bread-and-butter
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
bread
[ˈbrɛd] n → pain m
brown bread → pain m complet
white bread → pain m blanc
to know which side one's bread is buttered, to know which side one's bread is buttered on → savoir où est son intérêt
to earn one's daily bread → gagner son pain, gagner sa vie
a loaf of bread → un pain
brown bread → pain m complet
white bread → pain m blanc
to know which side one's bread is buttered, to know which side one's bread is buttered on → savoir où est son intérêt
to earn one's daily bread → gagner son pain, gagner sa vie
a loaf of bread → un pain
(= money) → fric m bread and butter n
(= buttered bread) → tartines fpl (beurrées)
(= livelihood) → gagne-pain m invbread-and-butter [ˌbrɛdənˈbʌtər] adj [issues, matters] → de basebread basket breadbasket [ˈbrɛdbɑːskət] n (= area, region) → grenier m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
bread
n
→ Brot nt; a piece of bread and butter → ein Butterbrot nt; we just had bread and butter → wir aßen nur Brot mit Butter; he was put on (dry) bread and water → er saß bei Wasser und (trocken) Brot; he knows which side his bread is buttered (on) → er weiß, wo was zu holen ist; bread and circuses → Brot und Spiele pl
(= food, livelihood) writing is his bread and butter → er verdient sich seinen Lebensunterhalt mit Schreiben; to take the bread out of somebody’s mouth (fig) → jdn seiner Existenzgrundlage (gen) → berauben; to break bread with somebody (old) → sein Brot mit jdm teilen, das Brot mit jdm brechen (old)
(inf: = money) → Kohle f (inf)
vt → panieren
bread
:bread-and-butter letter, bread-and-butter note
n → Bedankemichbrief m
bread-and-butter pudding
n → Brotauflauf m
breadbin
n (Brit) → Brotkasten m
breadbox
n (US) = breadbin
breadcrumb
n → Brotkrume f → or -krümel m
breadcrumbs
breadfruit
n → Brotfrucht f
breadknife
n → Brotmesser nt
breadline
n Schlange vor einer Nahrungsmittelausgabestelle to be on the bread (fig) → nur das Allernotwendigste zum Leben haben
bread roll
n → Brötchen nt
bread sauce
n → Brottunke f
breadstick
n → Knabberstange f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
bread
[brɛd] n → pane m (fam) (money) → granasliced white bread → pancarrè m
to earn one's daily bread → guadagnarsi il pane
to know which side one's bread is buttered on → saper da che parte conviene stare
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
bread
(bred) noun1. a type of food made of flour or meal baked. bread and butter.
2. one's living. This is how I earn my daily bread.
ˈbreadcrumbs noun plural very tiny pieces of bread. Dip the fish in egg and breadcrumbs.
ˈbreadwinner noun a person who earns money to keep a family. When her husband died she had to become the breadwinner.
bread and butter (a way of earning) one's living. Writing novels is my bread and butter.
on the breadline with barely enough to live on. The widow and her children are on the breadline.
bread and butter takes a singular verb.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
bread
→ خُبْز chléb brød Brot ψωμί pan leipä pain kruh pane パン 식빵 brood brød chleb pão хлеб bröd ขนมปัง ekmek bánh mì 面包Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
bread
n. pan;
___ and butter → ___ y mantequilla.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
Collins Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
bread
n pan mEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.