The difference between Bread and Paper

When used as nouns, bread means a foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals, whereas paper means a sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.

When used as verbs, bread means to coat with breadcrumbs, whereas paper means to apply paper to.

Paper is also adjective with the meaning: made of paper.

check bellow for the other definitions of Bread and Paper

  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:

    "rfquotek Ray"

  1. Bread as a verb (transitive):

    To form in meshes; net.

  1. Bread as a noun:

    A piece of embroidery; a braid.

  1. Paper as a noun:

    A sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.

  2. Paper as a noun:

    A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).

  3. Paper as a noun (uncountable):

    Wallpaper.

  4. Paper as a noun (uncountable):

    Wrapping paper.

  5. Paper as a noun (rock paper scissors):

    An open hand (a handshape resembling a sheet of paper), that beats rock and loses to scissors. It loses to lizard and beats Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.

  6. Paper as a noun:

    A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.

  7. Paper as a noun:

    A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal (as a journal article or the manuscript for one) or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, workshop, or symposium).

  8. Paper as a noun:

    A scholastic essay.

  9. Paper as a noun (slang):

    Money.

  10. Paper as a noun (New Zealand):

    A university course.

  11. Paper as a noun:

    A paper packet containing a quantity of items.

    Examples:

    "a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc."

  12. Paper as a noun:

    A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.

    Examples:

    "cantharides paper'"

  13. Paper as a noun:

    A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.

  1. Paper as an adjective:

    Made of paper.

    Examples:

    "'paper bag;  paper plane"

  2. Paper as an adjective:

    Insubstantial

    Examples:

    "'paper tiger;  paper gangster"

  3. Paper as an adjective:

    Planned

    Examples:

    "'paper rocket;  paper engine"

  1. Paper as a verb (transitive):

    To apply paper to.

    Examples:

    "to paper the hallway walls"

  2. Paper as a verb (transitive):

    To document; to memorialize.

    Examples:

    "After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up."

  3. Paper as a verb (transitive):

    To fill a theatre or other paid event with complimentary seats.

    Examples:

    "As the event has not sold well, we'll need to paper the house."

  4. Paper as a verb (transitive):

    To submit papers to (a law court, etc.).

  5. Paper as a verb (transitive):

    To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.

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