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# dough

«dough» in Mova's school dictionary: **A thick soft mixture of flour, water and other things…** — 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 (dough — usually no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A thick soft mixture of flour, water and other things, for making bread, pizza, pastry or biscuits before baking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dough/#m1)

2) (informal, old slang) Money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dough/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In cooking and science lessons, kneading dough with yeast makes it rise because the yeast gives off a gas; baking it is an irreversible change. Children play with play dough. Phrases: «knead the dough», «roll out the dough», «cookie dough», «play dough».

### examples

- We kneaded the dough for ten minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dough/#x1)
- Leave the dough in a warm place so it can rise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dough/#x2)
- Roll out the dough and cut out star shapes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dough/#x3)
- Pizza dough is stretched into a circle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dough/#x4)
- The yeast makes bubbles that make the dough rise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dough/#x5)
- Don't eat raw cookie dough with raw egg or flour in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dough/#x6)
- My little sister made a dinosaur out of play dough. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dough/#x7)
- "I haven't got enough dough for that," joked Dad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dough/#x8)
- Vasilissa took flour, kneaded dough, and made a pie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dough/#x9)

### note

Silent «gh»: «dough» rhymes with «go». Homophone: «doe» (a female deer) — «Doe, a deer». Do not mix up with «doughnut» (also «donut»). Raw dough with flour or egg can make you ill.

### In the corpora

- [Mum leaves a bowl of bread dough by the radiator, and an hour later it has puffed up to twice its size.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/0/)
- [The dough is full of yeast, a tiny living fungus, which eats sugar and breathes out carbon dioxide gas.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/1/)
- [Kneading pulls the dough's gluten proteins into long stretchy strands, like a net of tiny balloons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/2/)
- [They trap the gas, so the dough swells, and every hole in a slice of bread is where a bubble once was.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/3/)
- [Yeast is a tiny living fungus; in dough it eats sugar and gives off carbon dioxide gas that puffs the dough up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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