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# breadcrumb

«breadcrumb» in Mova's school dictionary: **A tiny piece of bread** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a breadcrumb, breadcrumbs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A tiny piece of bread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breadcrumb/#m1)

2) Breadcrumbs (plural): very small bits of dried bread used for coating food like fish or chicken before frying. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breadcrumb/#m2)

3) (computing) A breadcrumb trail: a line of links at the top of a website showing where you are, like Home > Science > Plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breadcrumb/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, Hansel and Gretel leave a trail of breadcrumbs to find their way home, but birds eat them. In cooking, food is coated in breadcrumbs. In computing lessons, breadcrumbs help you find your way on a website. Phrases: a trail of breadcrumbs, coated in breadcrumbs.

### examples

- Hansel dropped breadcrumbs to mark the path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breadcrumb/#x1)
- The birds ate all the breadcrumbs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breadcrumb/#x2)
- Dip the fish in egg and then in breadcrumbs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breadcrumb/#x3)
- There were breadcrumbs all over the table after breakfast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breadcrumb/#x4)
- The website's breadcrumbs showed Home > Games > Puzzles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breadcrumb/#x5)
- We fed breadcrumbs to the ducks, but oats are better for them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breadcrumb/#x6)
- Gangazara sat in the dark cellar, without the sun's light falling upon him, and feasted upon the breadcrumbs and sweetmeats that the rats so kindly supplied him with. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breadcrumb/#x7)

### note

Countable, usually plural (breadcrumbs). Bread itself is uncountable. Feeding a lot of bread to ducks is bad for them.

### Trees and pragmatics

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