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Definition: Doughnut |
DoughnutNoun1. A toroidal shape; "a ring of ships in the harbor"; "a halo of smoke". 2. A small ring-shaped friedcake. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "doughnut" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | The cylinder of coal formed by a coal auger. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A doughnut, or donut, is a deep-fried piece of dough or batter. The two most common shapes are the flattened sphere, which is injected with jam/jelly or another sweet filling; and the ring, which was traditionally formed by wrapping the dough around a stick but now is made with a cutter leaving a small piece cut from the center which is separately cooked as a doughnut hole.Doughnuts can be made using a yeast-based bread dough (raised doughnuts), or a special type of cake batter. Cake doughnuts are often iced with a brightly coloured glace icing or chocolate. Some doughnuts are dredged in cinnamon sugar, while others are filled with jam or custard, briefly soaked in a sugary flavoured solution, or glazed. Some doughnuts are made with apple cider (the non-alcoholic kind) and are common at cider mills and farm markets. Many kinds of doughnuts are eaten warm.
Donuts have become a part of Western culture. The cartoon character Homer Simpson is especially fond of doughnuts, while popular mythology has American police officers addicted to them. There are entire chains of retail stores devoted to the selling of hot fresh doughnuts to eager customers, eg. Dunkin' Donuts, Krispy Kreme, Tim Hortons, Winchell's Donuts, and many other chain stores.
Other sweet fried pastries very similar to doughnuts include churros and fritters.
Doughnuts have a controversial history.One traditional story says that they imported into the USA by Dutch settlers.
A type of doughnut was recorded in the 19th century on the Isle of Wight, UK, with a different recipe from from the type made in mainland Europe.
In France they are called beignets.
In Spain there is something called a churro which is not always thought of as a doughnut, but is made of deep fied sweet pastry and is also popular in the US where it is sometimes referred to as a Spanish Donut (it has a characteristic 'ridged' surface, due to being extruded through a star shaped hole) or Mexican Donut.
In Germany they are called bismarckss or berliners. (German doughnuts are sometimes called Berlin Doughnuts in the USA.) John F. Kennedy once famously said "Ich bin ein Berliner", which amuses some commentators because it has a double meaning: both "I am a citizen of Berlin" and "I am a jam (jelly) doughnut".
In the Hudson Valley (which includes the Catskill Mountains) in New York State, USA, a doughnut is sometimes called an olicook, which derives from the Dutch Oliekoeke or 'oil cake' (sometimes also called olykoecks). The Dutch themselves also refer to doughnuts as oliebollen (oily balls), although are more like fritters as they contain fruit.
Doughnuts, as ring shaped items, are an important explanatory tool in the science of topology where the ring donut shape (a ring with a circular cross section) is called a torus or toroid, and an example of this can be found in the Poincaré Conjecture.
Washington Irving's reference to "doughnuts" in 1809 in his History of New York is believed to be the first known printed use of the word.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Doughnut."
Synonyms: DoughnutSynonyms: anchor ring (n), annulus (n), anulus (n), donut (n), halo (n), ring (n), sinker (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Beef, bisquit, bun; cornstarch; cookie, cooky; cracker, doughnut; fatling; hardtack, hoecake, hominy; mutton, pilot bread; pork; roti, rusk, ship biscuit; veal; joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled; remove, entremet; releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince; pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat; pie, pasty, volauvent; pudding, omelet; pastry; sweets; kickshaws; condiment. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Doughnut |
| English words defined with "doughnut": Berlin doughnut, bismark ♦ dunker ♦ fastnacht ♦ jelly doughnut ♦ raised doughnut ♦ toroidal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "doughnut": baker, doughnut ♦ cruller maker ♦ DOUGHNUT MAKER ♦ novelty dipper, NOVELTY MAKER I ♦ Poloidal Radius ♦ Toroidal Radius. (references) |
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Screenplays | As she walks down the runway, I'm gonna pelt Kate Moss with a jelly doughnut! (High Society; writing credit: Lisa Albert; Pat Dougherty) Optimist only sees doughnut. Pessimist sees hole (Charlie Chan in Paris; writing credit: Philip MacDonald; Edward T. Lowe Jr.) Perfect case, like perfect doughnut, has hole (Charlie Chan in Paris; writing credit: Philip MacDonald; Edward T. Lowe Jr.) The police have returned to the saftey of their doughnut shops (Eraser; writing credit: Tony Puryear; Walon Green) | |
Lyrics | Do a doughnut, and cut, then I'll open it up (Livin' It Up; performing artist: Ja Rule) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bobby Bumps on the Doughnut Trail (1918) The Deadly Doughnut (1917) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Diane Scholen, left, and Pat Kizeminski, right (runners-up) place doughnut crown on Nancy Templeton, National Doughnut Queen] / World Telegram & Sun p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Fred Palumbo.. |
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| "Doughnut Factory 1" by Ginger Garvey Commentary: "DOughnuts in a doughnut factory. I'm sorry I couldn't share the calories or the smell, but here's the pics..." |
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| "Doughnut" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Doughnut" is used about 67 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) | 100% | 67 | 40,952 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "doughnut": Berlin doughnut ♦ jam doughnut ♦ jelly doughnut ♦ raised doughnut. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "doughnut": doughnut-shape, doughnut-shaped. | |
Ending with "doughnut": ring-doughnut. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "doughnut"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | petull e ëmbël në formë gjevreku. (various references) | |
Arabic | كعكة مقلية, كعكة محلاة (dodger). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | поничка (donut, sinker). (various references) | |
Chamorro | boñelos. (various references) | |
Chinese | 油炸圈餅 , 多福饼. (various references) | |
Czech | kobliha. (various references) | |
Danish | fluxforstaerker (donut), enkeltoprullet slange, acceleratorrør (acceleration tube). (various references) | |
Dutch | rol (account book, character, cylinder, drum, list, part, record, register, role, roll, roller), fluxversterker (donut), fluxomvormer (donut). (various references) | |
Farsi | نان شیرینی گردومانندحلقه . (various references) | |
Finnish | munkki (monk). (various references) | |
French | doughnut, tube accélérateur, tourillon (double-end stay bolt, double-end stud, double-end stud-bolt, double-ended stay bolt, double-ended stud, double-ended stud-bolt), chambre à vide, beignet, amplificateur de flux (donut). (various references) | |
German | krapfen (cruller, crullers). (various references) | |
Greek | ρόλος,(κν.)κουλούρα, σωλήνας επιτάχυνσης (acceleration tube), ντόνατ, λουκουμάσ (cruller). (various references) | |
Hebrew | סופגנית, סופגניה (spongecake). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fánk (donut). (various references) | |
Indonesian | donat. (various references) | |
Italian | ciambella (bun, life ring, rubber ring). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ト長調 (dawk, extreme close-up, G major). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ドーナツ . (various references) | |
Korean | 도넛 (donut, donuts). (various references) | |
Manx | teastag, fainey teayst, cro teayst. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oughnutday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rosquinha de massa frita, rolo (coil, coil pipe, furl, platen, roll, roller, rolling pin, roly-poly, spool), fritura (fritter, fry). (various references) | |
Romanian | gogoaşã (cock and bull story, cocoon, dough-boy, fibs, follicle). (various references) | |
Russian | пончик. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uštipak (fritter), krofna (fritter). (various references) | |
Spanish | buñuelo (fritter, pancake, puff, sinker). (various references) | |
Swedish | rullad slang, flottyrkokt munk, flödesförstärkare (donut), enkel rullad slang. (various references) | |
Thai | คนโง่ (apeth, berk, birdbrain, bozo, chucklehead, chump, clod, clodpole, div, dove, dummy, dunce, featherbrain, fool, half-wit, ignoramus, loon, muddlehead, mug, muggins, muppet, mut, nerd, nincompoop, nit, noddy, oaf, schlepp, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, thicko), ขนมโดนัท. (various references) | |
Turkish | tatlı çörek (brioche, sinker), lokma benzeri tatlı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | пампушка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không còn nghi ngờ gì nữa (controversy, questionless, sure), chắc như đinh đóng cột. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "doughnut": doughnutlike, doughnuts. (additional references) | |
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"Doughnut" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: doushantuo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "doughnut" (pronounced dō"nu't) |
| 5 | d ō" n u' t | donut. |
| 3 | -n u' t | chestnut, coconut, groundnut, hazelnut, walnut. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-h-n-o-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: dought, dugout, hognut, nought, outgun. | |
-3 letters: donut, dough, hound, ought, thong, tough, ungot. | |
-4 letters: dong, doth, dung, dunt, gout, hong, hung, hunt, thou, thud, thug, tong, tung, undo, unto. | |
-5 letters: dog, don, dot, dug, duh, dun, duo, gnu, god, got, gun, gut, hod, hog, hon, hot, hug, hun, hut, nod, nog, noh, not, nth. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-h-n-o-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: doughnuts. | |
+3 letters: underbought. | |
+4 letters: doughnutlike. | |
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