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Definition: Bread |
BreadNoun1. Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked. 2. Informal terms for money. Verb1. Cover with bread crumbs, as of pork chops. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bread" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Bible | Bread among the Jews was generally made of wheat (Ex. 29:2; Judg. 6:19), though also sometimes of other grains (Gen. 14:18; Judg. 7:13). Parched grain was sometimes used for food without any other preparation (Ruth 2:14). Bread was prepared by kneading in wooden bowls or "kneading troughs" (Gen. 18:6; Ex. 12:34; Jer. 7:18). The dough was mixed with leaven and made into thin cakes, round or oval, and then baked. The bread eaten at the Passover was always unleavened (Ex. 12:15-20; Deut. 16:3). In the towns there were public ovens, which were much made use of for baking bread; there were also bakers by trade (Hos. 7:4; Jer. 37:21). Their ovens were not unlike those of modern times. But sometimes the bread was baked by being placed on the ground that had been heated by a fire, and by covering it with the embers (1 Kings 19:6). This was probably the mode in which Sarah prepared bread on the occasion referred to in Gen. 18:6. In Lev. 2 there is an account of the different kinds of bread and cakes used by the Jews. (See BAKE.) The shew-bread (q.v.) consisted of twelve loaves of unleavened bread prepared and presented hot on the golden table every Sabbath. They were square or oblong, and represented the twelve tribes of Israel. The old loaves were removed every Sabbath, and were to be eaten only by the priests in the court of the sanctuary (Ex. 25:30; Lev. 24:8; 1 Sam. 21:1-6; Matt. 12:4). The word bread is used figuratively in such expressions as "bread of sorrows" (Ps. 127:2), "bread of tears" (80:5), i.e., sorrow and tears are like one's daily bread, they form so great a part in life. The bread of "wickedness" (Prov. 4:17) and "of deceit" (20:17) denote in like manner that wickedness and deceit are a part of the daily life. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | For a woman to dream of eating bread, denotes that she will be afflicted with children of stubborn will, for whom she will spend many days of useless labor and worry. To dream of breaking bread with others, indicates an assured competence through life. To see a lot of impure bread, want and misery will burden the dreamer. If the bread is good and you have access to it, it is a favorable dream. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Bread To break bread. To partake of food. Common in Scripture language. Breaking of bread. The Eucharist. "They continued ... in breaking of bread, and in prayers."- Acts ii. 42; and again verse 46. Bread He took bread and salt, i.e. he took his oath. Bread and salt were formerly eaten when an oath was taken. Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days (Eccles. xi. 1). When the Nile overflows its banks the weeds perish and the soil is disintegrated. The rice-seed being cast into the water takes root, and is found in due time growing in healthful vigour. Don't quarrel with your bread and butter. Don't foolishly give up the pursuit by which you earn your living. To know which side one's bread is buttered. To be mindful of one's own interest. To take the bread out of one's mouth. To forestall another; to say something which another was on the point of saying; to take away another's livelihood. (See under Butter.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang | Noun. Source: Items you would keep in a bread box?. Definition: Any kind of baked goods: cake, cookies, muffins, crackers and bread. Context: Used as food type label: Fruit, meat, bread. "Milk" also used to signify any kind of dairy products. Social Source: Smith Clan. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Slang in 1811 | BREAD. Employment. Out of bread; out of employment. In bad bread; in a disagreeable scrape, or situation. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Breads are a group of staple food-products prepared by baking, steaming, or frying a dough consisting primarily of flour, water and optionally a leavening agent.
Photo: Michel Marcon The word itself, Old English bread, is common in various forms to many Teutonic languages; cf. German Brot, Dutch brood, and Swedish and Danish bröd; it has been derived from the root of brew, but more probably is connected with the root of break, for its early uses are confined to broken pieces, or bits of bread, the Latin frustum, and it was not till the 12th century that it took the place as the generic name of bread, of hlaf, loaf, which appears to be the oldest Teutonic name, cf. Old High German hleib, and modern German Laib, or Finnish leipä.
Bread is a popular food in Western society. It is often made from wheaten flour that is allowed to ferment by the addition of liquids and yeast, and then baked in an oven.
Adding yeast, which is the process of leavening bread, gives it lightness and improves digestibility. But there is also unleavened bread which has important symbolic use in Judaism and is used by some Christian churches.
An alternate technique for leavening bread is the use of baking powder, which typically consists of bicarbonate of soda and rising agents. These are called quick breads and soda breads. Some wheat flours are sold with baking powder mixed in; this is known as self-rising flour. These are also used for cakes and biscuits.
A third technique for preparing leavening bread is known as sourdough. Instead of leavening directly from cultivated baker's yeast, sourdough bread is leavened with a starter. The starter is made of flour, water and wild or cultivated yeasts that is kept in an active state. Only part of the starter is used each time the bread is made and fresh flour and water is added to the starter to keep it active for future use. Similar to the solera system for sherry, this ensures that some of the starter used has fermented for a very long time. The dough is allowed to ferment for a longer period. The starter imparts a slightly sour flavor to the dough (hence the name) and the extended fermentation serves to partly break down the complex carbohydrates in the flour, making the bread more digestible. Sourdough breads have a slightly different texture than conventional yeast breads and are said to keep their freshness longer.
Owing to its high levels of gluten (which give the dough sponginess and elasticity), wheat is the most common grain used for the preparation of bread, but bread is also made from the flour of rye, barley, maize (or corn), and oats, usually, but not always, in combination with wheat flour.
There are many variations on the basic recipe of bread, including pizza, chapatis, tortillas, baguettes, pitas, lavash, biscuits, pretzels, naan, bagels, puris and many other variations. See Wikipedia Cookbook.
History
Bread is one of the oldest prepared foods, dating back to the Neolithic era when cereal grains and water were mixed into a paste and cooked. In ancient Egypt bread-making became one of the most significant areas of food preparation, along with the making of beer; both had religious significance as well. It is thought that the Egyptians invented the first closed oven for use in baking. Bread was a primary staple of diet in much of European history, from at least 1000 BCE into modern times.
Otto Frederick Rohwedder is considered to be the father of sliced bread. In 1912 Rohwedder started work on inventing a machine that sliced bread, but bakeries were reluctant to use it since they were concerned the sliced bread would go stale. It wasn't until 1928, when Rohwedder invented a machine that both sliced and wrapped the bread, that sliced bread caught on. A bakery in Battle Creek, Michigan was the first to use this machine to produce sliced bread.
Recipes
The following instructions to make bread were taken from the Household Cyclopedia of 1881:
- "Place in a large pan twenty-eight pounds of flour; make a hole with the hand in the centre of it like a large basin, into which strain a. pint of brewers, yeast; this must be tested, and if too bitter a little flour sprinkled into it, and then strained directly, then pour in two quarts of water of the temperature of 100¡, or blood heat, and stir the flour round from the bottom of the hole formed by the hand till that part of the flour is quite thick and well mixed, though all the rest must remain unwetted; then sprinkle a little flour over the moist part and cover it with a cloth; this is called sponge, and must be left to rise. Some leave it only half an hour, others all night.
- "When the sponge is light, however, add four quarts of water the same temperature as above, and well knead the whole mass into a smooth dough. This is hard work if done well. Then cover the dough and leave it for au hour. In cold weather both sponge and dough must be placed on the kitchen hearth, or in some room not too cold, or it will not rise well. Before the last water is put in two tablespoonful of salt must be sprinkled over the flour. Sometimes the flour will absorb another pint of water.
- "After the dough has risen it should be made quickly into loaves; if much handled then the bread will be heavy. It will require an hour and a half to bake, if made into fourpound loaves. The oven should be well heated before the dough is put into it. To try its heat, throw a little flour into it; if it brown directly, it will do. "
French bread recipe
- Put a pint of milk into three quarts of water. In winter let it be scalding hot, but in summer little more than milk warm. Put in salt sufficient. Take a pint and a half of good ale yeast, free from bitterness, and lay it in a gallon of water the night before. Pour off the yeast into the milk and water, and then break in rather more than a quarter of' a pound of butter. Work it well till it is dissolved; then beat up two eggs in a basin, and stir them in. Mix about a peck and a half of flour with the liquor, and in winter make the dough pretty stiff, but more slack in! summer; mix it well, and the less it is worked the better. Stir the liquor into flour, as for pie-crust, and after the dough is made cover it with a cloth, and let it lie to rise while the oven is heating. When the loaves have lain in a quick oven about a quarter of an hour, turn them on the other side for about a quarter of an hour longer. Then take them out, and chip them with a knife, which will make them look spongy, and of a fine yellow. whereas rasping takes off this fine color, and renders their look less inviting.
Bread is mentioned in the Lord's Prayer, where it may mean necessities in general.
Similarly, bread is now a common word in Britain for money from the rhyming slang 'Bread and honey'.
For the 1970s rock and roll band see Bread (band).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bread."
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Bread is a folk rock album by Bread, released in 1969 (see 1969 in music).
Bread peaked at #127 on Billboard's (North America) Pop Albums chart. The single "It Don't Matter to Me" charted in 1970 (see 1970 in music) after the release of Bread's second album. It peaked at #2 and #10 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary and Pop Singles charts, respectively.
The album's cover, with whimsical depictions of the band members photos on paper currency, refers to contemporary slang equating "bread" to money.
Track listing
- "Dismal Day" (Gates)
- "London Bridge" (Gates)
- "Could I" (Griffin/Royer)
- "Look at Me" (Gates)
- "The Last Time" (Griffin/Royer)
- "Any Way You Want Me" (Griffin/Royer)
- "Move Over" (Griffin)
- "Don't Shut Me Out" (Gates)
- "You Can't Measure the Cost" (Gates)
- "Family Doctor" (Griffin/Royer)
- "It Don't Matter to Me" (Gates)
- "Friends and Lovers" (Griffin/Hallinan/Royer)
Personnel
- Bread - Producer
- David Gates - Organ, Bass, Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Violin, Guitar (Bass), Keyboards, Piano (Electric), Viola, Vocals, Moog Synthesizer
- James Griffin - Guitar, Percussion, Keyboards, Vocals
- Jim Gordon - Drums
- Ken Perry - Remastering
- Bruce Botnick - Engineer
- Ed Caraeff - Photography
- Ron Edgar - Drums
- Jac Holzman - Production Supervisor
- Bill Inglot - Remastering
- Ted Myers - Reissue Coordination
- Robb Royer - Bass, Flute, Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Guitar (Bass), *Piano (Electric), Recorder, Vocals
- Barry Alfonso - Liner Notes
- William S. Harvey - Art Direction, Cover Art Concept
- Coco Shinomiya - Art Direction
- Bryan Rackleff - Design
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bread (album)."
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Bread was a 1970s rock and roll band from Los Angeles, California. David Gates (keyboard, vocals) and James Griffin (guitar, vocals) formed the group in 1968, adding Robb Royer (guitar, vocals, of Pleasure Faire) before signing to Elektra Records. Bread, the band's debut album, was a failure. Their second album established Bread as a major act, hitting the mainstream with "Make It With You". Hiring Mike Botts (drums), Bread began touring and recording Manna, which included their most enduring hit, "If".Royer left the group, replaced by Larry Knechtel in time for a series of hit singles and a hit album called Baby I'm-A Want You, followed by Guitar Man. Personal disputes soon broke up the band, with Gates and Griffin beginning solo careers. After a successful reunion, tensions between Gates and Griffin drove the band apart again, this time permanently.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bread (band)."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BREAD | English | Basic routine for enquiries and data | Computing |
| BR | English | Bread | N/A |
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Synonyms: BreadSynonyms: breadstuff (n), cabbage (n), dinero (n), dough (n), gelt (n), kale (n), loot (n), lucre (n), moolah (n), pelf (n), shekels (n), staff of life (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Food, pabulum; aliment, nourishment, nutriment; sustenance, sustentation, sustention; nurture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board; commissariat; (provision); prey, forage, pasture, pasturage; fare, cheer; diet, dietary; regimen; belly timber, staff of life; bread, bread and cheese. |
Comestibles, eatables, victuals, edibles, ingesta; grub, grubstake, prog, meat; bread, bread stuffs; cerealia; cereals; viands, cates, delicacy, dainty, creature comforts, contents of the larder, fleshpots; festal board; ambrosia; good cheer, good living. | |
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Screenplays | Women and children, begging for bread. There will be no more 'peaceful' demonstrations (Doctor Zhivago; writing credit: Boris Pasternak; Robert Bolt) tuna fish on white bread with mayonnaise, a Tab, and a couple of Twinkies (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.) He conducted a parent teacher interview yesterday and organized a field trip to a French bread factory in Trenton (Catch Me If You Can; writing credit: Frank Abagnale Jr.; Stan Redding) Would sir care for a starter of some garlic bread perhaps (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge) Okay, let's make like a bread truck and haul buns ladies (A League of Their Own; writing credit: Kim Wilson; Kelly Candaele) | |
Lyrics | And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar ("Piano Man"; performing artist: Billy Joel) Ain't no bread from Heavenly skies (HUMAN TOUCH; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) Chicken in a bread pan picken' out dough ("The Devil Went Down to Georgia"; performing artist: Charlie Daniels Band) Dirty south mind blown dirty south bread (Southern Hospitality; performing artist: Ludacris) The greatest thing since bread came sliced (Imitation of Life; performing artist: R.E.M.) | |
Clever | On Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding: “Product will be hot after heating. (references; author: unknown) The hardness of butter is directly proportional to the softness of the bread. (references; author: unknown) Why do croutons come in airtight packages? Aren't they just stale bread to begin with? (references; author: unknown) Money is like unspreadable butter: You try and spread it but it all lumps together at one end of the bread. (references; author: unknown) You are an engineer if you have a functioning home copier machine, but every toaster you own turns bread into charcoal. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Bad black bran bread. (references; author: unknown) Betty better butter Brad's bread. (references; author: unknown) Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bread (1971) Iron Bread (1970) Bread (1953) Shortenin' Bread (1949) Our Daily Bread (1934) | |
Song Titles | Shortnin' Bread (performing artist: Paul Chaplain) Bread and Butter (performing artist: The Newbeats) | |
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 | This is an image of healthy foods, including fruit, vegetables, fish and bread. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | A typed manuscript lies open on a purple tablecloth. Various types of grain, either loose or in a bowl and a ladle, are on top. There is also a basket with a round loaf of brown bread cut in half. See also AV-3906. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | This image shows a display of healthy foods on a table. Foods include beans, grains, cauliflour, cantelope, pasta, bread, orange, turkey, salmon, carrots, turnips, zucchini, snowpeas, string beans, radishes, asparagus, summer squash, lean beef, tomatoes, and potatoes. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | "Good" foods such as vegetables, fruits, cereals, and whole grain bread are displayed on a table. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Launch lunch on Inner Brass Island Launch lunch was a venerable institution on hydrographic ships Usually consisted of bread, bologna, and whatever else could be put in a cooler Always generated gripes but no one ever starved Tide gauge installation crew breaking for lunch. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Bulk bread products in a wholesale club in VA. Credit: USDA. |
 | Leavened bread has been around a long while-since the days of ancient Egypt, Babylon and Greece, in fact. Then, as now, it was made from wheat, or from a mixture of wheat and rye. The elastic gluten in wheat is essential for bread to rise. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | For 50 years, ARS laboratories have worked with all segments of the industry to help provide consumers with uniform, flavorful, nutritious bread and other wheat products. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Beginning in January 1998, the B vitamin folic acid will be added to enriched bread, flour, cornmeal, rice, pasta, and other products, according to a 1996 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Now San Francisco-style sourdough bread can be baked anywhere in the world. Which turned out not to be bad news for the City by the Bay. Pure cultures of L. sanfranciscoare now grown commercially and are commonly used by San Francisco bakers to control the quality of their product. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
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| "Ginger Bread Man" by Andy Taylor Commentary: "Photo of a half eaten ginger bread man." | "Bread" by Michel Marcon Commentary: "Sliced bread." |
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(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal | The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses. |
Francis Bacon | Acorns were good until bread was found. |
John Heywood | I know on which side my bread is buttered. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. |
Senator Daniel Webster | He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread. |
The Talmud | A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished. |
Thomas Fuller | Eaten bread is soon forgotten. |
Thomas Jefferson | Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it as earned. |
William James | Man lives for science as well as bread. |
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John Locke | 1690 | It would be a strange catalogue of things, that industry provided and made use of, about every loaf of bread, before it came to our use, if we could trace them; iron, wood, leather, bark, timber, stone, bricks, coals, lime, cloth, dying drugs, pitch, tar, masts, ropes, and all the materials made use of in the ship, that brought any of the commodities made use of by any of the workmen, to any part of the work; all which it would be almost impossible, at least too long, to reckon up. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | And it cannot be for the value of our custom now, for what is our consumption of bread, you know |
Rules and Regulations | Carroll, Lewis | Eat bread with butter |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | "I could hit a dozen with a bread roll from where I’m sitting." |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This has been established by crumbs of bread found on the floor of the room, when the court afterwards ordered a search |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He sat looking at the two prints of butter on his plate but could not eat the damp bread. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She placed three slices of bread on each plate |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The wife minced a bit of meat, then crumbled some bread on a trencher, and placed it before me. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | A little bread or a few potatoes would have done as well, with less trouble and filth |
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Health | The greatest amount is found in red meat and iron-fortified bread and cereal. (references) | |
Or, they can buy gluten-free bread, pasta, and other products from special food companies. (references) | ||
Starchy foods include pasta, rice, grains, cereals, crackers, bread, potatoes, dried beans, peas, and legumes. (references) | ||
Business | The food and beverage industries produce beer, juices and concentrates, bottled beverages, pastas, bread and cookies, sauces, cornmeal, flour, and internationally known wines. (references) | |
Most agricultural production is transformed into beer, juices and concentrates, bottled beverages, pastas, bread and cookies, sauces, cornmeal, flour, and internationally known wines. (references) | ||
Children | India | On June 30, a Calcutta court fined a nun of the Missionaries of Charity $20 (1,000 Rs) for branding a 12-year-old girl with a hot knife in September 2000. The nun had branded the girl because she stole bread. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Azerbaijan | The Government provided a minimal allowance to IDP's in the form of a bread allowance of $4 (18,000 manats) per month per family as well as an additional $2 (9,000 manats) per month for each child. (references) |
Egypt | Confiscated works included poetry by Lebanese poet Joseph Harb, two novels and an autobiography by Egyptian feminist Nawal al-Sa'adawi, "Crazy Stories," by Egyptian author Yehia Ibrahim, three works ("The Tent," "The Naked Bread," and "al-Shutar") by Moroccan author Mohammed Shukri, "The Merciful and the Devil," by Syrian author Firas al-Sawah, "Politics between the Permitted and the Forbidden," by Saudi Arabian author Turki Hamad, two works ("Fear of Modernism" and "Are you Shielded from the Harem?") by Moroccan feminist Fatma al-Mernissi, and "A Banquet for Seaweed," by Syrian author Haidar Haidar. (references) | |
Economic History | Peru | Most wheat is processed into flour for bread and pasta. (references) |
Turkey | The prices of bread, sugar, tea, energy, and public utilities are regulated. (references) | |
Kenya | The highest demand is for hard or high protein wheat used to blend bread flour. (references) | |
Human Rights | Pakistan | Such unsanitary conditions are common in small, poorly ventilated, and decrepit colonial-era prisons, which mainly are classified as class "C." Inadequate food, often consisting of only a few pieces of bread, leads to chronic malnutrition for those unable to supplement their diet with help from family or friends. (references) |
Political Economy | Jordan | Price controls remain on bread, pharmaceuticals, gasoline, and animal feed. (references) |
EGYPT | In general, prices for most products are market based, although the Egyptian government provides direct and indirect subsidies on key consumer goods to benefit Egypt's poor, including subsidized prices for bread and cooking oil. (references) | |
Trade | Romania | Under the new law, essential products and services as bread, electricity for domestic use, fuel, wood, and coal for domestic use, public transportation, and public utilities, which previously were VAT exempt, are now subject to the standard VAT rate. (references) |
Worker Rights | Nicaragua | The workers were only provided with a piece of bread and a bottle of soda during the night that they spent at the factory. (references) |
Kyrgyz Republic | Children also are involved in family enterprises such as shepherding, bread baking, selling products at roadside kiosks, and growing fruits and vegetables. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DUTY, n. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire. Sir Lavender Portwine, in favor at court, Was wroth at his master, who'd kissed Lady Port. His anger provoked him to take the king's head, But duty prevailed, and he took the king's bread, Instead. G.J. E |
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Rush Limbaugh | Brian quoted Ariel Sharon as saying he'll only meet with Jeb Bush when he visits south Florida next month, and not break bread with any Democrat leaders. |
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| "Bread" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.68% of the time. "Bread" is used about 3,727 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.68% | 3,715 | 2,614 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.27% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,727 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "bread" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bread | Last name | 200 | 34,166 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "bread". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Beth-lehem | N/A | Biblical | House of bread |
| Lahmam | N/A | Biblical | Their bread |
| Lahmi | N/A | Biblical | My bread |
| Og | N/A | Biblical | Bread baked in ashes |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Canada | Canada Bread Company | USA | Panera Bread Company |
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Expressions using "bread": a bit of bread ♦ Aerated bread ♦ Ammunition bread ♦ anadama bread ♦ army bread ♦ baking of bread ♦ banana bread ♦ barley bread ♦ batter bread ♦ beg one's bread ♦ black bread ♦ Boston brown bread ♦ bread and butter ♦ bread and butter issue ♦ bread and butter pickle ♦ bread and cheese ♦ bread and scrape ♦ bread and wine ♦ bread bakers'itch ♦ bread basket ♦ bread bin ♦ bread board ♦ bread crumb ♦ bread crumbs ♦ bread crust ♦ bread dish ♦ bread dough ♦ bread flavoured with wort ♦ bread fruit ♦ bread fruit tree ♦ bread knife ♦ bread line ♦ bread Loaf ♦ bread maker ♦ bread mold ♦ bread of life ♦ bread roll ♦ bread sauce ♦ bread slicer ♦ bread soup ♦ bread tree ♦ bread winner ♦ bread winning ♦ break bread ♦ brown bread ♦ cake bread ♦ caraway seed bread ♦ cinnamon bread ♦ coarse bread ♦ coat with bread crumbs ♦ corn bread ♦ Cream of tartar bread ♦ crust of bread ♦ cuckoo bread ♦ daily bread ♦ dark bread ♦ dark rye bread ♦ date bread ♦ dika bread ♦ Dole bread ♦ dried bread ♦ dry bread ♦ farmhouse bread ♦ feast of the Unleavened Bread ♦ french bread ♦ fresh bread ♦ fruit bread ♦ fry bread ♦ garlic bread ♦ give a stone for bread ♦ Gluten bread ♦ graham bread ♦ grate bread ♦ half a loaf is better than no bread ♦ Haver bread ♦ he knows on which side his bread is buttered ♦ Hog's bread ♦ holy bread ♦ hottentot bread ♦ hottentot bread vine ♦ hottentots bread ♦ Hottentot's bread ♦ Hottentot's bread vine ♦ Household bread ♦ hunk of bread ♦ Indian bread ♦ irish soda bread ♦ italian bread ♦ jewish rye bread ♦ kaffir bread ♦ know on which side one's bread is buttered ♦ leavened bread ♦ light bread ♦ live on bread and cheese ♦ live on bread and water ♦ loaf of bread ♦ make bread ♦ make one's bread ♦ making bread ♦ monkey bread ♦ native bread. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bread": bread-and-butter, bread-and-butter letter, bread-and-butter miss, bread-and-cheese, bread-and-circuses, bread-and-no-chees-ily, bread-baking, bread-basket, bread-baskets, bread-bin, bread-board, bread-crumb, bread-crumbs, bread-cutting, bread-dough, bread-eaters, bread-knife, bread-like, bread-line, bread-lined, bread-making, bread-nibbler, bread-oven, bread-ovens, bread-pudding, bread-roll, bread-room, bread-sauce, bread-soda, bread-stuffs, bread-throwers, bread-ticket, bread-winner, bread-winners, bread-winning. | |
Ending with "bread": barley-bread, beauty-before-bread, brick-bread, brown-bread, bump'n'grind-your-bones-to-make-my-bread, ciabatta-bread, ex-bread, ginger-bread, home-bread, Monkey-bread, mulberry-almond-bread, olive-bread, rye-bread, Saint-John's-bread, sea-bread, soda-bread, sow-bread, tea-bread, wholemeal-bread. | |
Containing "bread": little-bit-of-bread-and-no-cheeeeese, monkey-bread tree. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bread | 2,145 | bread maker recipe | 194 |
panera bread | 1,463 | banana nut bread recipe | 192 |
our daily bread | 1,411 | bread box | 187 |
banana bread recipe | 1,013 | amish friendship bread | 186 |
bread recipe | 919 | low carb bread recipe | 146 |
banana bread | 908 | bread circus | 143 |
daily bread | 903 | zucchini bread recipe | 132 |
bread machine recipe | 894 | panera bread company | 131 |
bread machine | 568 | bread company louis st | 125 |
bread maker | 502 | monkey bread recipe | 125 |
making bread | 422 | agriculture bread | 124 |
the atlanta bread company | 419 | beer bread | 119 |
bread pudding | 401 | french bread | 118 |
yeast bread | 313 | bread baking | 113 |
low carb bread | 288 | bread ezekiel | 112 |
bread pudding recipe | 282 | corn bread | 103 |
zucchini bread | 263 | bread basket | 99 |
banana nut bread | 246 | bread and butter pickle | 96 |
bread monkey | 225 | pita bread | 95 |
wonder bread | 210 | bread company | 86 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bread"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | brood (loaf). (various references) | |
Albanian | bukë (batch, loaf, nurture, rooty). (various references) | |
Arabic | كسرة خبز (crumb), قوت (aliment, food, nourishment, nutriment, subsistence, sustenance, victual), ساعد بكسرة الخبز, خبز القربان, خبز (bake, baking, sowbread), رزق (life, livelihood, potboiler, sustenance). (various references) | |
Asturian | pan. (various references) | |
Aymara | t'anta. (various references) | |
Basque | ogi. (various references) | |
Bavarian | broud (loaf). (various references) | |
Bemba | umukate. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | napayín, koohpááttstaan. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хляб (rooty), правя хляб. (various references) | |
Cebuano | tinapay (pan). (various references) | |
Chamorro | pan. (various references) | |
Chinese | 麵包 , 面包. (various references) | |
Cornish | bara. (various references) | |
Croatian | krušnoj (of bread). (various references) | |
Czech | chléb. (various references) | |
Danish | brød (loaf). (various references) | |
Dutch | brood (loaf), mik (loaf). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | tanta. (various references) | |
Esperanto | pano (loaf). (various references) | |
Faeroese | breyð (loaf). (various references) | |
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