Meaning of bread | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Breadth.
   Scotland, UK, dialectal, obsolete
2. A piece of embroidery; a braid.
3. bread (food made by baking cereal dough)
4. A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
   countable, uncountable
5. bun (such as the kind used on a hamburger or hot dog)
6. To coat with bread crumbs, as before cooking: breaded the fish fillets.
7. Such foodstuff that is not difficult to chew, being not extremely hard, dense, and dry.
   countable, especially, uncountable
8. money, dough
9. break bread, to eat a meal, esp. with others.
10. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
    countable, uncountable
11. work, job
12. To coat food with breadcrumbs, biscuit crumbs or cereal crumbs.
13. Any variety of bread.
    countable
14. very tiny pieces of bread. Dip the fish in egg and breadcrumbs. broodkrummels فتات خبز трохи farelo de pão strouhanka das Brotkrümel, das Paniermehl brødkrummer; rasp ψίχουλαpan rallado leivapuru خرده نان leivänmurut miette de pain, chapelure פְּרוּרֵי לֶחֶם फुलके का भीतरी भाग mrvice kruha morzsa tepung roti, remah roti brauðmylsna, rasp pane grattugiato, pangrattato パン粉 빵 부스러기 malti džiuvėsėliai (maizes) drupatas serbuk roti broodkruimelsbrødsmulerbułka tarta د ډوډی ټوټی pão ralado firimitur...
15. Money.
    Cockney, US, countable, slang, uncountable
16. a person who earns money to keep a family. When her husband died she had to become the breadwinner. broodwinner, koswinner عائل الأسرة човек, който работи. за да изхранва семейство sustento živitel rodiny der Geldverdiener forsørger; familieforsørger το πρόσωπο που κερδίζει χρήματα στην οικογένεια, κουβαλητής sostén perekonna toitja نان آور خانواده؛ کفیل elättäjä soutienמפרנס कमाने वाला hranitelj kenyérkereső pencari nafkah fyrirvinna (chi guadagna il pane per sé e la propria famiglia) 一家の稼ぎ手...
17. (a way of earning) one's living. Writing novels is my bread and butter. brood en botter, bestaan, broodwinning رزق، اسباب العيش изкарване на прехраната ganha-pão obživa der Lebensunterhalt levebrød κύρια πηγή εισοδήματος sustento, forma de ganarse la vida leivatöö منبع درآمد leipätyö gagne-pain לחם וחמאה, פרנסה जीविकोपार्जन का तरीका svakodnevni „kenyér” mata pencaharian lífsviðurværi mezzo di sussistenza 生計 호구지책 duona, pragyvenimo šaltinis, pragyvenimas maizes darbs sumber pendapatan levenson...
18. with barely enough to live on. The widow and her children are on the breadline. broodlyn, bestaansminimum بالكاد لديه ما يعتاش عليه، معتاش على المساعدة الحكوميه много беден na pobreza na mizině, existenční minimum auf Nahrungsmittelverteilung angewiesen sultegrænse που φυτοζωεί vivir en la miseria, no tener pan que llevarse a la boca toimetuleku piiril در مضیقه؛ مستضعف tulla hädin tuskin toimeen être sans le sou עֲנִי מָרוּד अत्यन्त गरीब red za besplatne obroke hrane a létminimumon miskin sek...
19. pan;___ and butter → ___ y mantequilla.
20. 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.
21. Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life: "If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second" (Edward Bellamy).

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Examples

“We made sandwiches with the bread we bought from the bakery.”

“My mother used to send me for the bread.”

“Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.”

“Give us this day our daily bread.”

“Some breads are harder and drier than others.”

“Maybe somebody would see him and recognize him, maybe one of the guys would lay enough bread on him for a meal or at least subway fare.”

“[…] save up all your bread, and fly Trans-Love Airways to San Francisco, USA.”

“And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar / And say, "Man, what are you doing here?"”

“Hey, baby, I don't care if the motherfucker's growing hair just so long as we get our bread.”

“Tastes like fruit when you hit it; got to have bread to get it.”

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