| 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" |
| crust | | |
| n. (object) | 1. crust, earth's crust | the outer layer of the Earth. |
| ~ layer | a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another. |
| ~ asthenosphere | the lower layer of the crust. |
| ~ horst | a ridge of the earth's crust that has been forced upward between two faults and so is higher than the surrounding land. |
| ~ geosphere, lithosphere | the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle. |
| ~ crustal plate, plate | a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly. |
| ~ sial | the granitelike rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust; rich in silicon and aluminum. |
| ~ sima | rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust; rich in silicon and magnesium. |
| n. (object) | 2. crust, encrustation, incrustation | a hard outer layer that covers something. |
| ~ covering, natural covering, cover | a natural object that covers or envelops.; "under a covering of dust"; "the fox was flushed from its cover" |
| ~ calculus, tophus, tartar | an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums. |
| n. (attribute) | 3. cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence | the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties. |
| ~ rudeness, discourtesy | a manner that is rude and insulting. |
| ~ chutzpa, chutzpah, hutzpah | (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity. |
| v. (change) | 4. crust | form a crust or form into a crust.; "The bread crusted in the oven" |
| ~ dry out, dry | become dry or drier.; "The laundry dries in the sun" |
| ~ change surface | undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface. |
| crest | | |
| n. (location) | 1. crest | the top line of a hill, mountain, or wave. |
| ~ line | a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent. |
| n. (location) | 2. crest, crown, peak, summit, tip, top | the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill).; "the view from the peak was magnificent"; "they clambered to the tip of Monadnock"; "the region is a few molecules wide at the summit" |
| ~ hilltop, brow | the peak of a hill.; "the sun set behind the brow of distant hills" |
| ~ pinnacle | a lofty peak. |
| ~ place, spot, topographic point | a point located with respect to surface features of some region.; "this is a nice place for a picnic"; "a bright spot on a planet" |
| ~ mountain peak | the summit of a mountain. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. crest, crown | the center of a cambered road. |
| ~ road, route | an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation. |
| ~ top side, upper side, upside, top | the highest or uppermost side of anything.; "put your books on top of the desk"; "only the top side of the box was painted" |
| n. (artifact) | 4. crest | (heraldry) in medieval times, an emblem used to decorate a helmet. |
| ~ blazon, blazonry, coat of arms, arms | the official symbols of a family, state, etc.. |
| ~ emblem | special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc.. |
| ~ heraldry | the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies. |
| n. (animal) | 5. crest | a showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal. |
| ~ tuft | a bunch of feathers or hair. |
| ~ topknot | showy crest or knot of hair or feathers. |
| ~ comb, coxcomb, cockscomb | the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds. |
| ~ appendage, outgrowth, process | a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant.; "a bony process" |
| v. (stative) | 6. cap, crest | lie at the top of.; "Snow capped the mountains" |
| ~ lie | be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position. |
| v. (motion) | 7. crest | reach a high point.; "The river crested last night" |
| ~ peak, top out | to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity.; "That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929"; "Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million" |
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