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# doughnut

«doughnut» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small sweet cake of fried dough, often shaped like a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a doughnut, doughnuts); also spelled donut, especially in the USA

### meaning for a pupil

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

2) A doughnut is any ring shape like this, such as a ring cushion or a rubber ring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doughnut/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it is a treat from a bakery or a bake sale; in maths it is a common example of a ring shape and of sharing problems («12 doughnuts in a box shared by 4»). Phrases: «a jam doughnut», «a box of doughnuts», «a ring doughnut».

### examples

- I had a jam doughnut at the fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doughnut/#x1)
- Dad brought a box of twelve doughnuts to share. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doughnut/#x2)
- The doughnut was covered in pink icing and sprinkles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doughnut/#x3)
- My doughnut got sugar all over my face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doughnut/#x4)
- A ring doughnut has a hole in the middle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doughnut/#x5)
- If 4 friends share 12 doughnuts equally, each gets 3. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doughnut/#x6)
- The car spun round and left a doughnut shape in the snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doughnut/#x7)

### note

Countable. «Doughnut» is the British and common spelling; «donut» is common in the USA. The «ough» says «oh». Too many sweet treats are bad for teeth; brush after eating them.

### In the corpora

- [Nobody lied about anything; Alfie just took the trouble, and his friend bought him a doughnut.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/23/)
- [Bram goes red, then buys her a box of Timbits, little doughnut balls from Tim Hortons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals/29/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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