English dictionary: words starting with bre

Meanings of Breach:

noun

An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.

Usage examples:

A breach of confidence

verb

Make a gap in and break through (a wall, barrier, or defence).

Usage examples:

The river breached its bank

Meanings of Breach-of-the-peace:

phrase

(an example of) illegal noisy or violent behaviour in a public place

Usage examples:

Ten percent of this group were in persistent trouble for minor breaches of the peace., this, she sa…

Meanings of Breach-of-trust:

noun

A failure to act responsibly for someone who has given you something to keep safe, for example money or a company's secret information

Usage examples:

The company initiated legal proceedings alleging industrial espionage and breach of trust., investo…

Meanings of Breached:

verb

Make a gap in and break through (a wall, barrier, or defence).

Usage examples:

The river breached its bank

noun

An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.

Usage examples:

A breach of confidence

Meanings of Breaches:

noun

An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.

Usage examples:

A breach of confidence

verb

Make a gap in and break through (a wall, barrier, or defence).

Usage examples:

The river breached its bank

Meanings of Breaching:

verb

Make a gap in and break through (a wall, barrier, or defence).

Usage examples:

The river breached its bank

noun

An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.

Usage examples:

A breach of confidence

Meanings of Bread:

noun

Food made of flour, water, and yeast mixed together and baked.

Usage examples:

A loaf of bread

verb

Coat (food) with breadcrumbs before cooking.

Usage examples:

Bread the chicken and fry it in oil.

Meanings of Bread and butter:

idiom

The financial means whereby one lives

noun

A person's livelihood or main source of income.

Usage examples:

Their bread and butter is reporting local events

Meanings of Breadbasket:

noun

A part of a region that produces cereals for the rest of it.

Usage examples:

The province has functioned as the country's breadbasket

Meanings of Breadbaskets:

noun

A part of a region that produces cereals for the rest of it.

Usage examples:

The province has functioned as the country's breadbasket

Meanings of Breadboard:

noun

A board for cutting bread on.

Usage examples:

The salad was huge, served on what looked like giant breadboards.

verb

Make (an experimental electric circuit).

Usage examples:

A modem i breadboarded myself

Meanings of Breadboards:

noun

A board for cutting bread on.

Usage examples:

The salad was huge, served on what looked like giant breadboards.

verb

Make (an experimental electric circuit).

Usage examples:

A modem i breadboarded myself

Meanings of Breadbox:

noun

A container in which bread is stored

Meanings of Breadboxes:

noun

A container in which bread is stored

Meanings of Breaded:

adjective

(of food) coated with breadcrumbs and then fried.

Usage examples:

Breaded scampi

verb

Coat (food) with breadcrumbs before cooking.

Usage examples:

Bread the chicken and fry it in oil.

Meanings of Breadfruit:

noun

The large round starchy fruit of a tropical tree, which is used as a vegetable and sometimes to make a substitute for flour.

Usage examples:

These animals have fed only on the finest tropical fruits (mangoes and breadfruit are their favouri…

Meanings of Breadfruits:

noun

The large round starchy fruit of a tropical tree, which is used as a vegetable and sometimes to make a substitute for flour.

Usage examples:

These animals have fed only on the finest tropical fruits (mangoes and breadfruit are their favouri…

Meanings of Breading:

noun

A coating of breadcrumbs, typically on fried food.

Usage examples:

Onion rings with light, crispy breading

verb

Coat (food) with breadcrumbs before cooking.

Usage examples:

Bread the chicken and fry it in oil.

Meanings of Breadless:

adjective

Deprived of or lacking bread; having no bread to eat; (hence more generally) having no food.

noun

With the and plural agreement. people without bread (or more generally, food) collectively.

Meanings of Breadline:

noun

The poorest condition in which it is acceptable to live.

Usage examples:

They are not well off, but they are not on the breadline

Meanings of Breadness:

noun

With reference to the sacramental bread in the eucharist: the quality or fact of consisting of bread.

Meanings of Breadnut:

noun

The small fleshy orange fruit of a large tropical evergreen tree native to mexico, central america, and the caribbean, brosimum alicastrum (family moraceae), containing a single large seed eaten boiled, roasted, or ground into flour; the seed of this fruit.

Meanings of Breadroot:

noun

Any of several north american leguminous plants of the genera pediomelum and psoralea which typically have edible tubers or bulbs traditionally used as a source of food by some north american indian peoples (especially plains indians); specifically the prairie turnip, psoralea esculenta.

Meanings of Breads:

noun

Food made of flour, water, and yeast mixed together and baked.

Usage examples:

A loaf of bread

verb

Coat (food) with breadcrumbs before cooking.

Usage examples:

Bread the chicken and fry it in oil.

Meanings of Breadth:

noun

The distance or measurement from side to side of something; width.

Usage examples:

The boat measured 27 feet in breadth