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bread | cracker |

As nouns the difference between bread and cracker

is that bread is a foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals while cracker is a dry, thin, crispy, and usually salty or savoury biscuit.

As a verb bread

is to coat with breadcrumbs.

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

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    cracker

    English

    Etymology 1

    From the verb to crack . Hard "bread/biscuit" sense first attested 1739, though "hard wafer" sense attested 1440. Sense of computer (cracker), (crack), (cracking), were promoted in the 1980s as an alternative to (hacker), by programmers concerned about negative public associations of (hack), . See .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dry, thin, crispy, and usually salty or savoury biscuit.
  • A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked .
  • A firecracker.
  • A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).
  • (Perhaps from previous sense.) A native of Florida or Georgia. See
  • (pejorative, ethnic slur) A white person, especially one form the Southeastern United States. Also "white cracker". See
  • A Christmas cracker
  • Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
  • (chiefly, British) A fine thing or person (crackerjack).
  • She's an absolute cracker'''! The show was a '''cracker !
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  • , year=2011 , date=January 15 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Man City 4 - 3 Wolves , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=And just before the interval, Kolarov, who was having one of his better games in a City shirt, fizzed in a cracker from 30 yards which the Wolves stopper unconvincingly pushed behind for a corner. }}
  • An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
  • (computing) One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
  • * 1984 , Richard Sedric Fox Eells, Peter Raymond Nehemkis, Corporate Intelligence and Espionage: A Blueprint for Executive Decision Making , Macmillan, p 137:
  • It stated to one of the company's operators, “The Phantom, the system cracker , strikes again . . . Soon I will zero (expletive deleted) your desks and your backups on System A. I have already cracked your System B.
  • * 2002 , Steve Jones, Encyclopedia of New Media (page 1925)
  • Likewise, early software pirates and "crackers " often used phrases like "information wants to be free" to protest the regulations against the copying of proprietary software packages and computer systems.
  • (obsolete) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
  • * Shakespeare
  • What cracker is this same that deafs our ears?
  • A northern pintail, species of dabbling duck.
  • (obsolete) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
  • (Knight)
    Derived terms
    * crackerless * crackerlike
    Synonyms
    * biscuit * (twisted string on a whip) popper, snapper * (one who defeats software security) black hat hacker * (one who defeats software security) hacker * (white person) honky, wonderbread, whitey

    Etymology 2

    Various theories exists regarding this term's application to poor white Southerners. One theory holds that it originated with disadvantaged corn and wheat farmers ("corncrackers"), who cracked'' their crops rather than taking them to the mill. Another theory asserts that it was applied due to Georgia and Florida settlers (:
    I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by crackers; a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia, who often change their places of abode." cracker]" in the Online Etymology Dictionary'', Douglas Harper, 2001"[http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-552 cracker" in ''The New Georgia Encyclopedia , John A. Burrison, Georgia State University, 2002

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, pejorative, racial slur) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; by extension: any white person.
  • Synonyms
    * (whites) white trash, trailer trash, redneck, peckerwood, honky, (sometimes ) crack head