bun

«bun» in Mova's school dictionary: a small, round piece of bread, often sweet — 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 (bun, buns)

meaning for a pupil

1) A bun is a small, round piece of bread, often sweet. tree →

2) A bun is a bread roll used for a burger or hot dog. tree →

3) A bun is a hairstyle where long hair is twisted into a round knot. tree →

sense in the lessons

food counted, often in packs; in bakeries; phrases «hot cross bun», «burger bun», «cinnamon bun», «hair in a bun»

examples

• Buns come in packs of 8. tree →
• Hot dogs come in packs of 10. tree →
• She bought 24 buns. tree →
• Each bun costs 50 cents. tree →
• Hot cross buns are eaten at Easter. tree →
• Put the burger in a bun. tree →
• She wears her hair in a bun for ballet. tree →
• The cinnamon buns smelled lovely. tree →
• We sang «Hot Cross Buns» in music class. tree →
• A sticky bun fell on the floor. tree →
• She bought a loaf of brown bread and five currant buns. tree →

note

Just a thing counted. Trap: packs of different sizes need extra packs to match; buns in 8s and hot dogs in 10s match first at 40.

In the corpora

• bāozi (high) is a filled steamed bun and bàozi (falling) is a leopard.
• His granny holds out a bun, «yào bu yào?», and you say yào.
• Pregnancy has many soft and funny names, from the polite "expecting" to the joking "a bun in the oven".
• "A bun in the oven" means pregnant; it is a joking phrase.
• Imagine paying for a bun with a printed note while most of Europe still paid in coins.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bun» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.