The difference between Bread and Loaf
When used as nouns, bread means a foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals, whereas loaf means (also loaf of bread) a block of bread after baking.
When used as verbs, bread means to coat with breadcrumbs, whereas loaf means to do nothing, to be idle.
check bellow for the other definitions of Bread and Loaf
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Bread as a noun (uncountable):
A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
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Bread as a noun (countable):
Any variety of bread.
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Bread as a noun (slang, US):
Money.
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Bread as a noun:
Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
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Bread as a verb (transitive):
to coat with breadcrumbs
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Bread as a noun (obsolete, or, UK, _, dialectal, Scotland):
Breadth.
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Bread as a verb (transitive, dialectal):
To make broad; spread.
Examples:
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Bread as a verb (transitive):
To form in meshes; net.
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Bread as a noun:
A piece of embroidery; a braid.
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Loaf as a noun:
(also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.
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Loaf as a noun:
Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
Examples:
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Loaf as a noun (Cockney rhyming slang):
Shortened from "loaf of bread", the brain or the head (mainly in the phrase use one's loaf).
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Loaf as a noun:
A solid block of soap, from which standard bars are cut.
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Loaf as a verb (intransitive):
To do nothing, to be idle.
Examples:
"loaf about'', ''loaf around''."
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Loaf as a verb:
(Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt, (from loaf of bread)