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bread
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bread
n.
type of food made from baked wheat; food in general regarded as a means of survival; money (Slang)
v.
coat in bread crumbs
bread always falls on the buttered side
When things go wrong they go totally wrong (Example: "Truly, the bread always falls on the buttered side. When the big painting fell off the my living room wall, it landed on our our new TV and broke it.")
someone's bread and butter
expr.
(Figuratively) person's basic income, someone's livelihood, someone's source of income
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Bread
Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour and water, usually by baking. Throughout recorded history it has been popular around the world and is one of the oldest artificial foods, having been of importance since the dawn of agriculture.
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bread
Noun
1. food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
(synonym) breadstuff, staff of life
(hypernym) baked goods
(hyponym) anadama bread
(part-holonym) sandwich
(substance-meronym) flour
2. informal terms for money
(synonym) boodle, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum
(hypernym) money
Verb
1. cover with bread crumbs; "bread the pork chops before frying them"
(hypernym) cover
(derivation) breadstuff, staff of life
(classification) cooking, cookery, preparation
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brear
v.
abuse, injure, harm, mistreat; tease, taunt, mock
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bread
n.
chléb; pečivo
