donut
part of speech
noun (a donut, donuts)
meaning for a pupil
1) A donut is a small, sweet, fried cake, often shaped like a ring with a hole in the middle or a ball filled with jam or cream. tree →
2) Something shaped like a ring can be called a donut shape (in maths, a torus). tree →
3) (informal, mainly US) Doing donuts means driving a car round and round in tight circles, leaving round skid marks. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life a treat from a bakery; in maths problems donuts are counted, shared and sold in boxes (a dozen = 12). In geometry a donut shape is called a torus. Phrases: a box of donuts, jam donut, glazed donut.
examples
- I'd like a chocolate donut with sprinkles, please. tree →
- A box holds 12 donuts. tree →
- The jam donut squirted when I bit into it. tree →
- We shared 18 donuts among 6 friends, so each got 3. tree →
- A ring-shaped donut has a hole in the middle. tree →
- Dad bought a dozen donuts for the class party. tree →
- The cake was shaped like a giant donut. tree →
note
«Donut» is the common American spelling; «doughnut» is the usual British, Irish, Australian and traditional spelling — both are correct. Plural: donuts. In maths: «a dozen donuts» = 12; «half a dozen» = 6.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «donut» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.