BREAD


Meaning of BREAD in English

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ fresh

▪ hard , mouldy/moldy , soggy , stale

This ~ is going stale.

▪ crusty

loaves of crusty French ~

▪ sliced

▪ unleavened

▪ organic

▪ home-baked , home-made

▪ fried ( esp. BrE ), toasted

▪ banana , garlic

▪ black , brown , corn , granary , naan ( esp. BrE ), pitta/pita , pumpernickel ( esp. AmE ), rye , soda , sourdough , wheat , white , wholegrain , wholemeal ( BrE ), wholewheat

▪ seven-grain , etc.

… OF BREAD

▪ loaf

▪ package ( AmE )

▪ chunk , crumb , crust , hunk , morsel , piece , slice

She tore off a large hunk of ~.

VERB + BREAD

▪ bake , make

the smell of freshly baked ~

▪ cut , slice

▪ butter , put sth on , spread

~ thickly spread with peanut butter

▪ toast

BREAD + NOUN

▪ dough

▪ pudding ( esp. BrE ), roll , sauce ( esp. BrE )

▪ basket , bin ( BrE ), box ( AmE ), knife

PREPOSITION

▪ on ~

What would you like on your ~?

PHRASES

▪ ~ and butter , ~ and margarine

a plate of ~ and butter

▪ ~ and cheese , ~ and jam ( esp. BrE ), ~ and water

He had to live on ~ and water for two weeks.

▪ ~ and wine (= in the Christian Communion service)

People started going up to receive the ~ and wine.

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .