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Cheese vs Bread - What's the difference?

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In uncountable|lang=en terms the difference between cheese and bread

is that cheese is (uncountable) a dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk while bread is (uncountable) a foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.

In countable|lang=en terms the difference between cheese and bread

is that cheese is (countable) a piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture while bread is (countable) any variety of bread.

In slang|lang=en terms the difference between cheese and bread

is that cheese is (slang) to anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off" while bread is (slang) money.

As nouns the difference between cheese and bread

is that cheese is (uncountable) a dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk or cheese can be (slang) wealth, fame, excellence, importance while bread is (uncountable) a foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals or bread can be breadth or bread can be a piece of embroidery; a braid.

As verbs the difference between cheese and bread

is that cheese is to prepare curds for making cheese or cheese can be (slang) to stop; to refrain from or cheese can be (gaming|slang) to use an unsporting tactic; to repeatedly use an attack which is overpowered or difficult to counter while bread is to coat with breadcrumbs or bread can be (dialectal) to make broad; spread or bread can be to form in meshes; net.

As an interjection cheese

is (photography).

cheese

English

(wikipedia cheese)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) chese, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
  • (countable) Any particular variety of cheese.
  • (countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
  • (uncountable, colloquial) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or , i.e. cheesy.
  • (uncountable, slang) Money.
  • (countable, UK) In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
  • (uncountable, slang, baseball) A fastball.
  • (uncountable, slang) A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
  • (vulgar, slang) Smegma.
  • (technology) Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
  • * 2006, US Patent 7458053, International Business Machines Corporation
  • It is known in the art to insert features that are electrically inactive (“fill structures”) into a layout to increase layout pattern density or and to remove features from the layout (“cheese structures”) to decrease layout pattern density.
  • A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
  • The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia ).
  • A low curtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.
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    Hyponyms
    * See also
    Antonyms
    * fill (dummy pattern to increase pattern density)
    Derived terms
    * Abertam cheese * American cheese * apple-cheese * * Asiago cheese * basket cheese * bleu cheese * blue cheese * Bonchester cheese * bread and cheese * brick cheese * Brussels' cheese * Buxton Blue cheese * Cabrales cheese * Caerphilly cheese * Caithness cheese * Camembert cheese * cauliflower cheese * chalk and cheese * Chaumes cheese * Cheddar cheese * cheese and bread * cheese-bail * cheese board, cheese-board, cheeseboard * cheese-borer * cheese-bowl * cheese-box * cheese-bug * cheeseburger * cheese-cement * cheesecake * cheese cloth, cheesecloth, cheese-clout * cheese-cratch * cheese-crate * cheese curds * cheese-cutter, cheesecutter * cheesed, cheesed off * cheese dip * cheese dish * cheese down * cheese fingers * cheese fly * cheese grater * cheese-hake, cheese-heck * cheese-head * cheese-headed * cheese-hoop * cheese-hopper, cheesehopper * cheese-knife * cheese ladder * cheeseling * cheese-maggot * cheesemaker * cheese mite * cheese-moat * cheese-mold, cheese-mould * cheesemonger * cheese off * cheese-pale * cheese-parer * cheese-paring, cheeseparing * cheese-plate * cheese powder * cheese-press * cheeser * cheese rack/cheese-rack * cheese-ramekin * cheese-rennet * cheese-room * cheese-running * cheesery * the Cheeses * cheese-scoop * cheese skipper * cheese slaw * cheese slicer * cheese spread * cheese straw * cheese-taster * cheese-toaster * cheese-tub * cheese-vat * cheese-water * cheesewire * cheesewood * cheese-wring * cheesine * cheesing * cheesy * * Cheshire cheese * Chevington cheese * * Chihuahua cheese * cock cheese * Colby cheese * Colby-Jack cheese * Coon cheese * Cornish Yarg cheese * cotija cheese * cottage cheese * Cougar Gold cheese * cream cheese, cream-cheese * Criollo cheese * Cuba cheese * curd cheese * damson cheese, damson-cheese * Danish Blue cheese * Derby cheese * Dorset Blue Vinney cheese * Dorstone cheese * Double Gloucester cheese * Dovedale cheese * Duberry cheese * Dunlop cheese * Dutch cheese * * Edam cheese * Emmental cheese, Emmenthal cheese * Exmoor Blue cheese * farmer cheese, farmer's cheese * feta cheese * Gloucester cheese * goat cheese * Gouda cheese * Grana Padano cheese * grated cheese * green cheese * * hard cheese * head-cheese, headcheese, head cheese * hoop cheese * Horeb cheese * human cheese * Huntsman cheese * Idiazabal cheese * Ilchester cheese * jack cheese * * Jarlsberg cheese * Lancashire cheese * Leicester cheese * Leidse cheese, Leyden cheese * lemon cheese * Liederkranz cheese * Limburg cheese, Limburger cheese * Lincolnshire Poacher cheese * Lymeswold cheese * macaroni and cheese, macaroni cheese * make butter and cheese of * make cheeses * Manchego cheese * Maytag Blue cheese * mousetrap cheese * mozzarella cheese * Muenster cheese, Munster cheese, * Nabulsi cheese * * nipcheese * * Oaxaca cheese * Oka cheese * Parmesan cheese * pepper jack cheese * pick-cheese * pimento cheese * Pinconning cheese * pizza cheese * pot cheese * processed cheese * Provel cheese * rat cheese * Red Leicester cheese * Red Windsor cheese * ricotta cheese * romano cheese * ruen cheese * sage-cheese * Sage Derby cheese * * Sakura cheese * say cheese * Shropshire Blue cheese * Single Gloucester cheese * slip cheese * smoked cheese * sour milk cheese * Stilton cheese * Stinking Bishop cheese * store cheese * string cheese * Swaledale cheese * Swiss cheese * Testouri cheese * Teviotdale cheese * Tilsit cheese, Tilsiter cheese * tip-cheese * toad-cheese, toad's cheese * Tyrolean grey cheese * * * Waterloo cheese * Wensleydale cheese * White Stilton cheese * Yunnan cheese * Zamorano cheese
    See also
    * (wikipedia) * * butter * cream * milk * turophile * yogurt

    Verb

    (chees)
  • To prepare curds for making cheese.
  • (technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
  • Interjection

  • (photography)
  • Say "cheese "! ... and there we are!

    Etymology 2

    Probably from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
  • Derived terms
    * big cheese * sub-cheese

    Etymology 3

    Verb

    (chees)
  • (slang) To stop; to refrain from.
  • (slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
  • All this waiting around is really cheesing me off.
    Derived terms
    * cheese it * cheesed off

    Etymology 4

    From cheesy.

    Verb

    (chees)
  • (gaming, slang) To use an unsporting tactic; to repeatedly use an attack which is overpowered or difficult to counter
  • You can cheese most of the game using certain exploits.
  • (gaming) To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games)
  • It's not every day you can see someone defend a cheese maneuver with a planetary fortress and win the game without using a single unit.
    Synonyms
    * (use a surprise all-in strategy early in a game) rush, zerg 1000 English basic words

    bread

    English

    (wikipedia bread)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) bred, breed, from (etyl) .

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
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  • (countable) Any variety of bread.
  • (slang) Money.
  • Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
  • * Bible, (w) vi. 11
  • Give us this day our daily bread .
    Synonyms
    * dough, folding stuff, lolly, spondulicks, wonga
    Usage notes
    * loaf, slice, piece, hunk are some of the words used to count bread.
    Derived terms
    * aerated bread * Afghan bread * altar bread * Amish friendship bread * ammunition bread * anadama bread * apple potato bread * Armenian cracker bread * artisan bread * bake someone's bread * banana bread * Barbari bread * barley bread * batter bread * bee-bread * beer bread * biscuit bread * black bread * blackfellow's bread * Boston brown bread * bread and butter * bread and cheese * bread and circuses * bread and honey * bread and milk * * bread and salt * bread and scrape * bread and water * bread and wine * bread-artist * bread bag * bread-barge * bread-basket, breadbasket * bread-bearer * bread beetle * bread-berry, breadberry * bread bin * bread board, breadboard * bread bowl * breadbox * bread-brake * bread buttered on both sides * bread-chipper * bread clip * bread-controller * bread-corn, breadcorn * breadcrumb * bread-crust bomb * bread dough * bread-dust * breaden * bread-flake * bread-fleigh * bread flour * breadfruit * bread-god * bread-head, breadhead * breadish * breadkind * bread knife * bread-jelly * bread-lepe * breadless * bread line, breadline * bread machine * bread maker * bread-meal * bread mold, bread mould * breadness * bread-nut, breadnut * bread of affliction * bread of idleness * bread of life * bread of wheat * bread palm * bread pan * bread pill * bread poultice * bread-powder * bread pudding * bread-purveyor * bread roll * bread-room, breadroom * bread-root, breadroot, breadroot scurf pea * bread sauce * bread-science * bread-study * bread-skep * bread starter * bread-steward * bread-stick, breadstick * bread study * bread-stuff, breadstuff * bread tag * bread-ticket * bread-trade * bread tree, bread-tree * bread-unit * bread upon the waters * bread wheat * bread-winner, breadwinner * bread-worship * breadwort * bready * break bread * brown bread * bush bread * butterbread * butter one's bread on both sides * cake-bread * caraway seed bread * cast one's bread upon the waters * cheat-bread * cheese and bread * chub bread * ciabatta bread * cinnamon bread * clap-bread, clapbread * cocket-bread * corn bread, cornbread * corn rye bread * court holy bread * cracked-wheat bread * cracker bread * cream of tartar bread * crisp bread, crispbread * Cuban bread * cuckoo bread * curry bread * daily bread * dark bread * date bread * date-nut bread * dika bread * dole bread * dry bread * egg bread * eggy bread * embread * fairy bread * fancy bread * flat bread, flatbread * focaccia bread * French bread * fried bread * fry bread, frybread * full of bread * garlic bread * gingerbread * gluten bread * God's bread * Graham bread * granary bread * Gyeongju bread * hard bread * hare's bread * have one's bread buttered for life * haver bread * hog's bread * holy bread * horse-bread * Hottentot's bread * household bread * Hwangnam bread * in bad bread * in-bread * inbread * Indian bread * in good bread * Irish soda bread * Italian bread * Jewish rye bread * John's bread * Kaffir bread, kaffir bread * know which side one's bread is buttered on * lava bread, laver bread, laverbread * light bread * limpa bread * liquid bread * loaf bread * loaf of bread * mandel bread * marble rye bread * mealie bread * melon bread * monkey bread, monkey's bread * moulding of cockle bread, moulding of cocklety bread * multigrain bread * native bread * new bread * nut bread * 'od's bread * olive bread * onion bread * pan bread * pilot bread * pita bread, pitta bread * plain bread * pocket bread * potato bread * Pugliese bread * pumpernickel bread * pumpkin bread * raised bread * quick bread * raisin bread * ravel bread, ravelled bread * riddle-bread * Russian black bread * Russian Easter bread * rye bread * sacramental bread * sad bread * Saint John's bread, St John's bread * salt-rising bread * sausage bread * schiacciata bread * science bread * sea bread * Seminole bread * shew-bread, shewbread, show-bread, showbread * ship bread * shortbread * singing bread * skillet bread * skillet corn bread * sliced bread * soda bread * sour bread, sourbread * sourdough bread * sow bread, sow-bread, sowbread * spoon bread, spoonbread * sugar-bread * sunflower bread * Swedish limpa bread * Swedish rye bread * sweet bread * sweetbread * sweetcorn bread * sweet rye bread * swine-bread * take bread and salt * take the bread out of someone's mouth * tea-bread * temse bread, temsed bread * therf-bread * tiger bread * to-bread * twice-baked bread * unleavened bread * Veda bread * wastel bread * wheat bread * white bread * whole-grain bread, wholegrain bread * whole meal bread, whole-meal bread, wholemeal bread * whole wheat bread, whole-wheat bread, wholewheat bread * yeast bread * zatar bread

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to coat with breadcrumbs
  • Derived terms
    * breaded * breading

    See also

    * loaf

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) brede, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Breadth.
  • Derived terms
    *

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) breden, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dialectal) To make broad; spread.
  • (Ray)

    Etymology 4

    Variant of braid, from (etyl) breden, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form in meshes; net.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A piece of embroidery; a braid.
  • Anagrams

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