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# bread

«bread» in Mova's school dictionary: **a food made from flour, water and usually yeast, mixed…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (bread — uncountable; breads for kinds)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Bread is a food made from flour, water and usually yeast, mixed into a dough and baked in an oven. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bread/#m1)

2) Bread comes in loaves, rolls and slices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bread/#m2)

3) Bread is sometimes a slang word for money (old-fashioned). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bread/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: loaves or slices counted, often with a price or shared among people; slices per loaf is a rate; a sandwich uses 2 slices. In science: yeast makes gas bubbles that make bread rise. Everyday life: toast, sandwiches, bread and butter. Phrases: a loaf of bread, a slice of bread, bread and butter, breadcrumbs, the best thing since sliced bread.

### examples

- A loaf of bread costs $2. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bread/#x1)
- Each loaf has 20 slices of bread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bread/#x2)
- She made 4 sandwiches with 2 slices of bread each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bread/#x3)
- The baker sells 60 loaves of bread a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bread/#x4)
- We fed the ducks breadcrumbs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bread/#x5)
- Yeast makes the bread dough rise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bread/#x6)
- Would you like brown bread or white bread? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bread/#x7)
- Hansel and Gretel left a trail of bread crumbs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bread/#x8)
- Have you a morsel of bread?’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bread/#x9)

### note

Uncountable: «some bread», «a loaf of bread», «a slice of bread», not «a bread». Homophone: «bred» (past form of breed). Counted in loaves or slices, not one by one. Trap: a sandwich uses 2 slices. Bread is not good food for ducks; seeds or peas are better.

### In the corpora

- [Bread fills ducks with little goodness and rotting leftovers dirty the pond; oats, peas, sweetcorn or duck food are better.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks/16/)
- [Feeding huge crowds of pigeons with bread makes too many pigeons, and birds packed in crowds spread mess and illness more easily.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/14/)
- [Baking sets the bubbles, and that is why bread has holes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/4/)
- [When the war blocked ships from Ukraine in 2022, grain and bread prices rose in many countries.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/12/)
- [Cartoon ducks gobble whole loaves of bread and cartoon swans break people's arms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bread» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bread/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.