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# knead

«knead» in Mova's school dictionary: **to press, fold and stretch dough with your hands to make…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (knead, kneads, kneaded, kneading)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To knead means to press, fold and stretch dough with your hands to make bread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knead/#m1)

2) To knead also means to press and rub muscles, like in a massage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knead/#m2)

3) Cats «knead» by pushing their paws in and out on something soft. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knead/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In cooking lessons, kneading makes the dough stretchy (it develops gluten) so bread rises. Cats knead blankets when content.

### examples

- Knead the dough for ten minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knead/#x1)
- My hands got sticky from kneading. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knead/#x2)
- The cat kneaded my lap with its paws. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knead/#x3)
- She kneaded her sore shoulders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knead/#x4)
- Kneading makes the bread soft and springy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knead/#x5)
- We kneaded the play dough into a ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knead/#x6)
- Vasilissa took flour, kneaded dough, and made a pie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knead/#x7)

### note

Silent k: sounds the same as «need» (homophone). Spelling: kn-ead.

### In the corpora

- [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/)
- [Kneading lines up gluten proteins into long stretchy strands that trap the gas like balloons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/10/)
- [And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.346/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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