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# pastry

«pastry» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small baked sweet food made with dough, like a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (pastry — the dough, uncountable; a pastry, pastries — the food)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pastry is a small baked sweet food made with dough, like a croissant, a Danish or a tart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#m1)

2) Pastry is the dough made of flour, fat and water that is used for pies and tarts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a thing counted, made and sold by a baker, next to cakes; in cooking, pastry is rolled out for pies; phrases «puff pastry», «pastry chef», «pastry shop»

### examples

- The baker made 140 pastries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#x1)
- He sold 103 pastries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#x2)
- How many pastries did he have left? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#x3)
- How many more pastries than cakes did he sell? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#x4)
- I had a pastry with my hot chocolate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#x5)
- Roll the pastry out thin for the pie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#x6)
- The pastry chef makes cream puffs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#x7)
- Puff pastry has lots of thin layers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#x8)
- A sausage roll is wrapped in pastry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#x9)
- The pastry shop smelled of butter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#x10)
- But just as the Country Mouse was about to nibble a dainty bit of pastry, she heard a Cat mew loudly and scratch at the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#x11)

### note

A thing counted. «made» adds, «sold» takes away. Trap: cakes and pastries are counted apart. «Pastry» (dough) is uncountable, «pastries» (things to eat) are counted. Do not mix up with «pasta».

### Trees and pragmatics

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