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# loaf

«loaf» in Mova's school dictionary: **bread baked in one big piece, before it is cut into slices** — 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 (loaf, loaves); verb (loaf, loafs, loafed, loafing — to be lazy)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A loaf is bread baked in one big piece, before it is cut into slices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loaf/#m1)

2) A meat loaf is minced meat cooked in a loaf shape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loaf/#m2)

3) To loaf, or loaf around, is to spend time doing nothing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loaf/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a counted thing of bread; slices per loaf (slices = loaves × slices each); a price per loaf. In everyday life: buying a loaf at the bakery, making sandwiches. In stories: the Little Red Hen baked a loaf of bread. Phrases: «a loaf of bread», «a sliced loaf», «use your loaf» (UK: think!), «half a loaf is better than none».

### examples

- A baker makes 40 loaves a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loaf/#x1)
- Each loaf has 12 slices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loaf/#x2)
- A loaf costs 2 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loaf/#x3)
- How many loaves for 60 slices? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loaf/#x4)
- Please buy a loaf of bread on the way home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loaf/#x5)
- The Little Red Hen baked a loaf all by herself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loaf/#x6)
- The fresh loaf smelled wonderful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loaf/#x7)
- He loafed around all Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loaf/#x8)
- 'Crumble those three loaves for the ants,' he said. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loaf/#x9)

### note

Plural «loaves» (f changes to v), like leaf → leaves. Maths: group with a size: slices = loaves × slices each. Trap: the plural is «loaves»; with leftover slices you still need one more loaf.

### In the corpora

- [Cartoon ducks gobble whole loaves of bread and cartoon swans break people's arms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice/4/)
- [Mould spreads threads through soft food like bread further than you can see, so throw the whole loaf away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/106-kitchen-floors-food-safety-and-the-microwave/6/)
- [A loaf has a set number of slices, and a shop sells only whole loaves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/260-loaves-for-the-sandwiches/1/)
- [Count the sandwiches, double them to get the slices, then find how many whole loaves give that many slices.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/260-loaves-for-the-sandwiches/2/)
- [Jesus fed five thousand people with a boy's five loaves and two fish, and twelve baskets were left over.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/16-the-miracles-of-jesus/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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