bread 
bread (bred)
noun
- a food baked from a leavened, kneaded dough made with flour or meal, water, yeast, etc.
- a similar food, as matzo, that is not leavened and so remains flat when baked
- any baked food like bread but made with a batter quick breads, corn bread
- food generally
- the means of living; livelihood to earn one's bread
- Slang money
Etymology: ME bred < OE bread, crumb, morsel < IE *bhreu-, var. of *bhereu-, to ferment < base *bher-, well up, seethe > brew, burn, L fervere, to boil
transitive verb
to cover with bread crumbs before cooking
bread and butter
one's means of subsistence; livelihood
break bread
to partake of food; eat
cast one's bread upon the waters
to be generous or do good deeds without expecting something in return
know which side one's bread is buttered on
to know what is to one's advantage and from what source it comes
bread
n.
Grain product
loaf, baked goods, the staff of life. Types of bread include: whole wheat, grain, oatmeal, graham, rye, leavened, unleavened, matzo, salt-rising, yeast, quick, flat, pita, baguette, corn, sourdough, Russian, raisin, pumpernickel, Vienna, French, Italian, white, black, dark brown, Boston brown, steamed, Swedish, potato, hardtack.
Breadlike foods include: Zwieback, spoon bread, cake, dumpling, turnover, rusk, gem, bun, cookie, English muffin, corn bread, bagel, biscuit, doughnut, muffin, popover, scone, shortbread, hoecake, pone, johnnycake, pancake, waffle, tortilla, Indian bread;
Food
meal, sustenance, livelihood, bed and board; see food, subsistence 1.*Money
cash, dollars, dough*; see money 1.
break bread
cast one's bread upon the waters
know which side one's bread is buttered on*
Converse of object
- bake: Take an early morning stroll to buy freshly baked bread from the local baker in the village square.
- slice: Slice the bread into 3 cm pieces, cutting large slices in half.
- toast: Use a pastry brush to brush this glaze over the toasted bread.
Adjective modifier
- wholemeal: These are found in a range of foods such as meat, fish, eggs, nuts, milk, wholemeal bread and cereals.
- crusty: Often served with fresh crusty bread to soak up all that oil.
- stale: You crawl along with a delicate scrape, Like the breaking of stale bread.
- fried: If you can, avoid black pudding and sausages and replace the fried bread with toast.
- homemade: The wine, farm eggs and homemade bread was an extra bonus.
Modifies a noun
- crumb: He enjoys their company - they enjoy his bread crumbs.
- oven: They try and make bread in a 17 th century style bread oven, and cook up a contemporary rustic feast.
- dough: Barrel Usually made with a milk bread dough, baked in a ridged mold.
- pudding: Lots of people knew about bread and butter pudding, but not bread pudding.
- flake: A lot of the rudd are caught on the drop in summer, especially by anglers using caster or bread flake.
Noun used with modifier
- pitta: Instead of beans use a small tin of chopped tomatoes on the pitta bread.
- rye: Rye bread was held of very little value, and it was very generally used among the country people.
- wholegrain: It contains moderate amounts of complex carbs such as wholegrain bread, with most vegetables being free foods, and fruit included daily.
- garlic: Try having salad, garlic bread etc with it!
- naan: Serve with the cashews and coriander scattered over alongside rice, chutney and naan bread.
- sourdough: Yes, I have done sourdough bread from scratch.
I want every family in America to have a carpet on the floor and a picture on the wall. After bread, you've got to have a picture on the wall.
You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchiefand sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.
My aim all along has been (in Ezra Pound's term) the most drastic desuetization of Scottish life and letters, and, inparticular, thede-Tibetanizationofthe Highlands and Islands, and getting rid of the whole gang of high mucky-mucks, famous fatheads, old wives of both sexes, stuffed shirts, hollow men with headpieces stuffed with straw, bird-wits, lookers-under-beds, trained seals, creeping Jesuses, Scots Wha Ha'evers, village idiots, policemen, leaders of white-mouse factions and noted connoisseurs of bread and butter, glorified gangsters, and what 'Billy' Phelps calls Medlar Novelists (the medlar being a fruit that becomes rotten before it is ripe),Commercial Calvinists, makers of 'noises like a turnip', and all the touts and toadies and lickspittles o the English Ascendancy, and their infernal women-folk, and all their skunkoil skulduggery.
I won't quarrel with my Bread and Butter.
Nam qui dabat olim imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, panem et circenses. Time was when their plebiscite elected generals, Heads of State, commanders of legions: but now they've pulled intheir horns, there's only twothingsthatconcernthem: bread and games.
I opened a tin of Bologna sausage and broke a cake of chocolate, and that was all I had to eat. It may sound offensive, but I ate them together, bite by bite, by way of bread and meat. All I had to wash down this revolting mixture was neat brandy; a revolting beverage in itself. But I was rare and hungry; ate well, and smoked one of thebestcigarettesinmyexperience.Then Iput a stonein my straw hat, pulled the flap of my fur cap over my neck and eyes, put my revolver ready to hand, and snuggled well down among the sheepskins.
'Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers, With England's own coal, up and down the salt seas?' 'We are going to fetch you your bread and your butter, Your beef, pork, and mutton, eggs, apples and cheese.'
Here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough, A flask of wine, a book of verseöand Thou Beside me singing in the wildernessö And wilderness is paradise enow.
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
All forms of government fall when it comes up to the question of breadöbread for the family, something to eat.Bread to a manwith a family comes firstöbefore his union, before his citizenship, before his church affiliation. Bread!
Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with the stars to see, Bread I dip in the riverö There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever.
The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.
I don't trust anybody who's never eaten bread with the salt of tears.
Weary men, what reap ye?öGolden corn for the stranger. What sow ye?öHuman corpses that wait for the avenger. Fainting forms, hunger stricken, what see ye in the offing? Stately ships to bear our food away, amid the stranger's scoffing. There's a proud array of soldiersöwhat do they round your door? They guard our master'sgranaries from the thin hands of the poor. Pale mothers, wherefore weeping? Would to God that we were deadö Ourchildren swoon before us, and we cannot give them bread.
Castthy bread uponthewaters: for thoushalt find it after many days.
Cast yourbread uponthewaters,but wait until thetideis coming in to do it.
Women have no wideness in them Theyare provident instead, Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread.
Theartist needsbut a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all therest Godgiveshim inabundance.Hemust live to paint and not paint to live.
Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter.
Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
I am proud that I am an Australian, a daughter of the Southern Cross, a child of the mighty bush. I am thankful I am a peasant, a part of the bone and muscle of my nation, and earn my bread by the sweat of my brow, as man was meant to do. I rejoice I was not born a parasite, one of the blood-suckers who loll on velvet and satin, crushed from the proceeds of human sweat and blood and souls.
And the children of Israel said unto them,Would to God we had died by thehand of the L in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth to this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Except the L build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the L keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness.
If thine enemy behungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the L shall reward thee.
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come.Thy will be doneinearth, as it isinheaven.Giveus this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive ourdebtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen, it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.
And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts untoyourchildren, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave ittothe disciples, and said,Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
The Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said,Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying,This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords.
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that hemight maketheeknow that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the L doth man live.
Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
In fine, we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place. So on we worked, and waited for the light, And went without meat, and cursed the bread; And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head.
I have been young and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
People who eat white bread have no dreams.
And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
Man lives by science as well as bread.
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return to the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shall return.
The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown: The Lion beat the Unicorn all round the town. Some gave them white bread, some gave them brown; Some gave them plum-cake and drummed them out of town.
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 104
Oh, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing man cannot choose but pay, How has she cheapened paradise: How given for naught her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spilled the wine, Which, spent with due, respective thrift, Had made brutes men, and men divine.
La majestueuse e¤ galite¤ des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain. The majestic equality of laws forbids the rich as well as the poor tosleep under bridges, to beg inthestreets and to steal bread.
They flee from me, that sometime did me seek, With naked foot, stalking in my chamber. I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek, That now are wild, and do not remember That sometime they put themselves in danger To take bread at my hand; and now they range, Busily seeking with a continual change.
Oh! God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!
Wer nie sein Brot mitTr a« nen aÞ, Wer nie die kummervollen N a« chte, Auf seinem Bette weinen saÞ, Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen M a« chte. Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping and watching for the morrow He knows ye not, ye heavenly powers.
El pan comido y la compan |¤a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.
Our hearts, unrisen, yield a heavy bread.
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