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# bun

«bun» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small, round piece of bread, often sweet** — 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 (bun, buns)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A bun is a small, round piece of bread, often sweet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bun/#m1)

2) A bun is a bread roll used for a burger or hot dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bun/#m2)

3) A bun is a hairstyle where long hair is twisted into a round knot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bun/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

food counted, often in packs; in bakeries; phrases «hot cross bun», «burger bun», «cinnamon bun», «hair in a bun»

### examples

- Buns come in packs of 8. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bun/#x1)
- Hot dogs come in packs of 10. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bun/#x2)
- She bought 24 buns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bun/#x3)
- Each bun costs 50 cents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bun/#x4)
- Hot cross buns are eaten at Easter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bun/#x5)
- Put the burger in a bun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bun/#x6)
- She wears her hair in a bun for ballet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bun/#x7)
- The cinnamon buns smelled lovely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bun/#x8)
- We sang «Hot Cross Buns» in music class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bun/#x9)
- A sticky bun fell on the floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bun/#x10)
- She bought a loaf of brown bread and five currant buns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bun/#x11)

### note

Just a thing counted. Trap: packs of different sizes need extra packs to match; buns in 8s and hot dogs in 10s match first at 40.

### In the corpora

- [bāozi (high) is a filled steamed bun and bàozi (falling) is a leopard.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/2-the-four-tones/17/)
- [His granny holds out a bun, «yào bu yào?», and you say yào.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/4/)
- [Pregnancy has many soft and funny names, from the polite "expecting" to the joking "a bun in the oven".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/3/)
- ["A bun in the oven" means pregnant; it is a joking phrase.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/20/)
- [Imagine paying for a bun with a printed note while most of Europe still paid in coins.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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