| bread | | |
| n. (food) | 1. bread, breadstuff, staff of life | food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked. |
| ~ starches | foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread). |
| ~ flour | fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain. |
| ~ baked goods | foods (like breads and cakes and pastries) that are cooked in an oven. |
| ~ anadama bread | a yeast-raised bread made of white flour and cornmeal and molasses. |
| ~ bap | a small loaf or roll of soft bread. |
| ~ barmbrack | a rich currant cake or bun. |
| ~ bread-stick, breadstick | a crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup. |
| ~ boston brown bread, brown bread | dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water. |
| ~ bun, roll | small rounded bread either plain or sweet. |
| ~ caraway seed bread | bread containing caraway seeds. |
| ~ challah, hallah | (Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking. |
| ~ cinnamon bread | bread flavored with cinnamon often containing raisins. |
| ~ cracked-wheat bread | bread made with cracked wheat that has been ground fine. |
| ~ cracker | a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet. |
| ~ crouton | a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads. |
| ~ brown bread, dark bread, whole meal bread, whole wheat bread | bread made with whole wheat flour. |
| ~ english muffin | round, raised muffin cooked on a griddle; usually split and toasted before being eaten. |
| ~ flatbread | any of various breads made from usually unleavened dough. |
| ~ garlic bread | French or Italian bread sliced and spread with garlic butter then crisped in the oven. |
| ~ gluten bread | bread made with gluten flour. |
| ~ host | a technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass or Holy Communion. |
| ~ loaf, loaf of bread | a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating. |
| ~ matzah, matzo, matzoh, unleavened bread | brittle flat bread eaten at Passover. |
| ~ naan, nan | leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop. |
| ~ onion bread | bread containing finely minced onions. |
| ~ raisin bread | bread containing raisins. |
| ~ quick bread | breads made with a leavening agent that permits immediate baking. |
| ~ rye bread | any of various breads made entirely or partly with rye flour. |
| ~ salt-rising bread | white wheat bread raised by a salt-tolerant bacterium in a mixture of salt and either cornmeal or potato pulp. |
| ~ simnel | a crisp bread of fine white flour. |
| ~ sour bread, sourdough bread | made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation is active. |
| ~ toast | slices of bread that have been toasted. |
| ~ wafer | thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist). |
| ~ light bread, white bread | bread made with finely ground and usually bleached wheat flour. |
| ~ sandwich | two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them. |
| n. (possession) | 2. boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum | informal terms for money. |
| ~ money | the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender.; "we tried to collect the money he owed us" |
| v. (contact) | 3. bread | cover with bread crumbs.; "bread the pork chops before frying them" |
| ~ cookery, cooking, preparation | the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" |
| ~ cover | provide with a covering or cause to be covered.; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers" |
| fan | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. fan | a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces. |
| ~ cooling system, engine cooling system | equipment in a motor vehicle that cools the engine. |
| ~ device | an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose.; "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water" |
| ~ electric fan, blower | a fan run by an electric motor. |
| ~ exhaust fan | a fan that moves air out of an enclosure. |
| ~ punkah | a large fan consisting of a frame covered with canvas that is suspended from the ceiling; used in India for circulating air in a room. |
| n. (person) | 2. fan, rooter, sports fan | an enthusiastic devotee of sports. |
| ~ aficionado | a fan of bull fighting. |
| ~ enthusiast, partizan, partisan | an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity. |
| ~ railbird | a fan of racing who watches races from the outer rail of the track. |
| n. (person) | 3. buff, devotee, fan, lover | an ardent follower and admirer. |
| ~ followers, following | a group of followers or enthusiasts. |
| ~ aerophile | a lover of aviation. |
| ~ aficionado | a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical performer. |
| ~ amorist | one dedicated to love and lovemaking especially one who writes about love. |
| ~ bacchanal, bacchant | a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus. |
| ~ follower | a person who accepts the leadership of another. |
| ~ groupie | an enthusiastic young fan (especially a young woman who follows rock groups around). |
| ~ metalhead | a fan of heavy metal music. |
| v. (contact) | 4. fan | strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher). |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| ~ strike out | put out or be put out by a strikeout.; "Oral struck out three batters to close the inning" |
| v. (change) | 5. fan | make (an emotion) fiercer.; "fan hatred" |
| ~ compound, deepen, intensify, heighten | make more intense, stronger, or more marked.; "The efforts were intensified"; "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions" |
| v. (motion) | 6. fan | agitate the air. |
| ~ winnow | blow on.; "The wind was winnowing her hair"; "the wind winnowed the grass" |
| ~ shake, agitate | move or cause to move back and forth.; "The chemist shook the flask vigorously"; "My hands were shaking" |
| v. (contact) | 7. fan, winnow | separate the chaff from by using air currents.; "She stood there winnowing chaff all day in the field" |
| ~ sift, sieve, strain | separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements.; "sift the flour" |
| loaf | | |
| n. (food) | 1. loaf, loaf of bread | a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating. |
| ~ bread, breadstuff, staff of life | food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked. |
| ~ heel | one of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread. |
| ~ french loaf | a loaf of French bread. |
| ~ meat loaf, meatloaf | a baked loaf of ground meat. |
| n. (food) | 2. loaf | a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape.; "meat loaf"; "sugar loaf"; "a loaf of cheese" |
| ~ solid food, food | any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment.; "food and drink" |
| ~ loaf sugar, sugar loaf, sugarloaf | a large conical loaf of concentrated refined sugar. |
| ~ pound cake | rich loaf cake made of a pound each of butter and sugar and flour. |
| ~ haslet | heart and liver and other edible viscera especially of hogs; usually chopped and formed into a loaf and braised. |
| ~ headcheese | sausage or jellied loaf made of chopped parts of the head meat and sometimes feet and tongue of a calf or pig. |
| ~ lunch meat, luncheon meat | any of various sausages or molded loaf meats sliced and served cold. |
| ~ scrapple | scraps of meat (usually pork) boiled with cornmeal and shaped into loaves for slicing and frying. |
| v. (stative) | 3. arse about, arse around, bum, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loaf, loll, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time | be lazy or idle.; "Her son is just bumming around all day" |
| ~ laze, idle, slug, stagnate | be idle; exist in a changeless situation.; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning" |
| v. (stative) | 4. footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry | be about.; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| ~ prowl, lurch | loiter about, with no apparent aim. |
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