The difference between Bread and Dough

When used as nouns, bread means a foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals, whereas dough means a thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.

When used as verbs, bread means to coat with breadcrumbs, whereas dough means to make into dough.


check bellow for the other definitions of Bread and Dough

  1. Bread as a noun (uncountable):

    A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.

  2. Bread as a noun (countable):

    Any variety of bread.

  3. Bread as a noun (slang, US):

    Money.

  4. Bread as a noun:

    Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

  1. Bread as a verb (transitive):

    to coat with breadcrumbs

  1. Bread as a noun (obsolete, or, UK, _, dialectal, Scotland):

    Breadth.

  1. Bread as a verb (transitive, dialectal):

    To make broad; spread.

    Examples:

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  1. Bread as a verb (transitive):

    To form in meshes; net.

  1. Bread as a noun:

    A piece of embroidery; a braid.

  1. Dough as a noun:

    A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.

    Examples:

    "Pizza dough is very stretchy."

  2. Dough as a noun (slang):

    Money.

    Examples:

    "His mortgage payments left him short on dough."

    "Hey Martin, we are playing a hold'em card game for some dough, would you like to join?"

  1. Dough as a verb (transitive):

    To make into dough.

    Examples:

    "The flour was doughed with a suitable quantity of water."

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