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# donut

«donut» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small, sweet, fried cake, often shaped like a ring with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a donut, donuts)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A donut is a small, sweet, fried cake, often shaped like a ring with a hole in the middle or a ball filled with jam or cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/donut/#m1)

2) Something shaped like a ring can be called a donut shape (in maths, a torus). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/donut/#m2)

3) (informal, mainly US) Doing donuts means driving a car round and round in tight circles, leaving round skid marks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/donut/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life a treat from a bakery; in maths problems donuts are counted, shared and sold in boxes (a dozen = 12). In geometry a donut shape is called a torus. Phrases: a box of donuts, jam donut, glazed donut.

### examples

- I'd like a chocolate donut with sprinkles, please. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/donut/#x1)
- A box holds 12 donuts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/donut/#x2)
- The jam donut squirted when I bit into it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/donut/#x3)
- We shared 18 donuts among 6 friends, so each got 3. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/donut/#x4)
- A ring-shaped donut has a hole in the middle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/donut/#x5)
- Dad bought a dozen donuts for the class party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/donut/#x6)
- The cake was shaped like a giant donut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/donut/#x7)

### note

«Donut» is the common American spelling; «doughnut» is the usual British, Irish, Australian and traditional spelling — both are correct. Plural: donuts. In maths: «a dozen donuts» = 12; «half a dozen» = 6.

### Trees and pragmatics

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