Dough vs Lump - What's the difference?
dough | lump |
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.
(slang) Money.
Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound, hill, or group.
A group, set, or unit.
A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
A dull or lazy person.
(informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
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A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
To treat as a single unit; to group together.
As nouns the difference between dough and lump
is that dough is 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 while lump is something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound, hill, or group.As verbs the difference between dough and lump
is that dough is to make into dough while lump is to treat as a single unit; to group together.dough
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Alternative forms
* (dialectal)Noun
(en-noun)- Pizza dough is very stretchy.
- His mortgage payments left him short on dough .
Derived terms
* doughboy * doughnut * doughy * rolling in doughDerived terms
*lump
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(wikipedia lump)Noun
(en noun)- Stir the gravy until there are no more lumps .
- a lump''' of coal; a '''lump''' of clay; a '''lump of cheese
- The money arrived all at once as one big lump sum payment.
- Do you want one lump or two with your coffee?
- Don't just sit there like a lump .
- He's taken his lumps over the years.
Derived terms
* lumpectomy * lump in one’s throat * lumpy * lump-sunHyponyms
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* *Verb
(en verb)- People tend to lump turtles and tortoises together, when in fact they are different creatures.
