pastry
part of speech
noun (pastry — the dough, uncountable; a pastry, pastries — the food)
meaning for a pupil
1) A pastry is a small baked sweet food made with dough, like a croissant, a Danish or a tart. tree →
2) Pastry is the dough made of flour, fat and water that is used for pies and tarts. tree →
sense in the lessons
a thing counted, made and sold by a baker, next to cakes; in cooking, pastry is rolled out for pies; phrases «puff pastry», «pastry chef», «pastry shop»
examples
- The baker made 140 pastries. tree →
- He sold 103 pastries. tree →
- How many pastries did he have left? tree →
- How many more pastries than cakes did he sell? tree →
- I had a pastry with my hot chocolate. tree →
- Roll the pastry out thin for the pie. tree →
- The pastry chef makes cream puffs. tree →
- Puff pastry has lots of thin layers. tree →
- A sausage roll is wrapped in pastry. tree →
- The pastry shop smelled of butter. tree →
- But just as the Country Mouse was about to nibble a dainty bit of pastry, she heard a Cat mew loudly and scratch at the door. tree →
note
A thing counted. «made» adds, «sold» takes away. Trap: cakes and pastries are counted apart. «Pastry» (dough) is uncountable, «pastries» (things to eat) are counted. Do not mix up with «pasta».
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «pastry» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.