knead

«knead» in Mova's school dictionary: to press, fold and stretch dough with your hands to make… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (knead, kneads, kneaded, kneading)

meaning for a pupil

1) To knead means to press, fold and stretch dough with your hands to make bread. tree →

2) To knead also means to press and rub muscles, like in a massage. tree →

3) Cats «knead» by pushing their paws in and out on something soft. tree →

sense in the lessons

In cooking lessons, kneading makes the dough stretchy (it develops gluten) so bread rises. Cats knead blankets when content.

examples

• Knead the dough for ten minutes. tree →
• My hands got sticky from kneading. tree →
• The cat kneaded my lap with its paws. tree →
• She kneaded her sore shoulders. tree →
• Kneading makes the bread soft and springy. tree →
• We kneaded the play dough into a ball. tree →
• Vasilissa took flour, kneaded dough, and made a pie. tree →

note

Silent k: sounds the same as «need» (homophone). Spelling: kn-ead.

In the corpora

• Kneading pulls the dough's gluten proteins into long stretchy strands, like a net of tiny balloons.
• Kneading lines up gluten proteins into long stretchy strands that trap the gas like balloons.
• And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.

Trees and pragmatics

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