bread
part of speech
noun (bread — uncountable; breads for kinds)
meaning for a pupil
1) Bread is a food made from flour, water and usually yeast, mixed into a dough and baked in an oven. tree →
2) Bread comes in loaves, rolls and slices. tree →
3) Bread is sometimes a slang word for money (old-fashioned). tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths: loaves or slices counted, often with a price or shared among people; slices per loaf is a rate; a sandwich uses 2 slices. In science: yeast makes gas bubbles that make bread rise. Everyday life: toast, sandwiches, bread and butter. Phrases: a loaf of bread, a slice of bread, bread and butter, breadcrumbs, the best thing since sliced bread.
examples
- A loaf of bread costs $2. tree →
- Each loaf has 20 slices of bread. tree →
- She made 4 sandwiches with 2 slices of bread each. tree →
- The baker sells 60 loaves of bread a day. tree →
- We fed the ducks breadcrumbs. tree →
- Yeast makes the bread dough rise. tree →
- Would you like brown bread or white bread? tree →
- Hansel and Gretel left a trail of bread crumbs. tree →
- Have you a morsel of bread?’ tree →
note
Uncountable: «some bread», «a loaf of bread», «a slice of bread», not «a bread». Homophone: «bred» (past form of breed). Counted in loaves or slices, not one by one. Trap: a sandwich uses 2 slices. Bread is not good food for ducks; seeds or peas are better.
In the corpora
- Bread fills ducks with little goodness and rotting leftovers dirty the pond; oats, peas, sweetcorn or duck food are better.
- Feeding huge crowds of pigeons with bread makes too many pigeons, and birds packed in crowds spread mess and illness more easily.
- Baking sets the bubbles, and that is why bread has holes.
- When the war blocked ships from Ukraine in 2022, grain and bread prices rose in many countries.
- Cartoon ducks gobble whole loaves of bread and cartoon swans break people's arms.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «bread» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.