dough
part of speech
noun (dough — usually no plural)
meaning for a pupil
1) A thick soft mixture of flour, water and other things, for making bread, pizza, pastry or biscuits before baking. tree →
2) (informal, old slang) Money. tree →
sense in the lessons
In cooking and science lessons, kneading dough with yeast makes it rise because the yeast gives off a gas; baking it is an irreversible change. Children play with play dough. Phrases: «knead the dough», «roll out the dough», «cookie dough», «play dough».
examples
- We kneaded the dough for ten minutes. tree →
- Leave the dough in a warm place so it can rise. tree →
- Roll out the dough and cut out star shapes. tree →
- Pizza dough is stretched into a circle. tree →
- The yeast makes bubbles that make the dough rise. tree →
- Don't eat raw cookie dough with raw egg or flour in it. tree →
- My little sister made a dinosaur out of play dough. tree →
- "I haven't got enough dough for that," joked Dad. tree →
- Vasilissa took flour, kneaded dough, and made a pie. tree →
note
Silent «gh»: «dough» rhymes with «go». Homophone: «doe» (a female deer) — «Doe, a deer». Do not mix up with «doughnut» (also «donut»). Raw dough with flour or egg can make you ill.
In the corpora
- Mum leaves a bowl of bread dough by the radiator, and an hour later it has puffed up to twice its size.
- The dough is full of yeast, a tiny living fungus, which eats sugar and breathes out carbon dioxide gas.
- Kneading pulls the dough's gluten proteins into long stretchy strands, like a net of tiny balloons.
- They trap the gas, so the dough swells, and every hole in a slice of bread is where a bubble once was.
- Yeast is a tiny living fungus; in dough it eats sugar and gives off carbon dioxide gas that puffs the dough up.
Trees and pragmatics
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