What's the difference between bread and crummy?

Bread


Definition:

  • (a.) To spread.
  • (n.) An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.
  • (n.) Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
  • (v. t.) To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
  • (2) This was due to the fact that stale bread was fed ad lib, rather than concentrates.
  • (3) Spoon over the dressing and eat immediately, while the tomatoes are still hot and the bread is crisp.
  • (4) She wanted to cook the kind of food she had eaten and prepared while living in Italy – grilled meats, bread soups, pasta.
  • (5) Some oligomers of N-acetyl-glucosamine were also effective in blocking the inhibitory effect of "bread" wheat gliadin peptides.
  • (6) 3) In all age groups the foods most ingested were: steamed rice, wakame, tofu, bread, scallions, Japanese omelette, and tomatoes.
  • (7) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
  • (8) For the consumer, it’s a convenient way to buy local groceries, everything from vegetables to fish, cheese and bread is all sold on one website and can be collected from one place.” There are now over 450 assemblies in France and Belgium, and the company is launching in Britain, Germany and Spain.
  • (9) But the co-founder of London's Prufrock cafe says that producing great espresso is "no more complicated than making bread".
  • (10) Approximately 80 g labeled bread was consumed by each subject, providing a total calcium load of 13.3 mg.
  • (11) The feeding test indicated a relatively low toxicity of molded bread.
  • (12) "So 44% of workers in South Africa are working for a loaf of bread a day," he said.
  • (13) During pregnancy, a mother should be encouraged to eat less saturated fat and drink few sugary drinks while eating more brown rice, brown bread and porridge, added Poston.
  • (14) Of 1353 cereal samples, 11.7% contained the mycotoxin; of 1372 samples of feed, 1.5%; of 368 bread samples, 17.2%; of 215 flour samples, 22.3%; of 894 porcine serum samples, 37.4%; and of 1065 human serum samples, 7.2%.
  • (15) In both cases the postprandial glucose response was lower after rye bread than after wheat bread.
  • (16) Rheological properties of flour and quality parameters of bread are changed to a greater or lesser extent, among other, by addition of free amino acids.
  • (17) We have studied the effects of dextrose, rice, potato, corn, and bread on postprandial plasma glucose and insulin responses in 16 subjects.
  • (18) A probable explanation for the well maintained serum folate levels in late pregnancy as well as in other populations studied in this report may be the high dietary intake of Iranian bread made from wheat flour of high extraction rate.
  • (19) Studies in normal or iron deficient adults also demonstrated a better absorption of iron from NaFeEDTA than from Fe2(SO4)3 whether these compounds were given in an aqueous solution (5 mg Fe) or with a standard meal consisting of beans, tortillas, bread, and coffee providing also a total of 5 mg Fe.
  • (20) A similar meal in which guar was added to the bread and pectin to the marmalade resulted in significant reductions of blood glucose at 15 min (P less than 0.002) and 30 min (P less than 0.01).

Crummy


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of crumb or crumbs.
  • (a.) Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the end of the night, he told us we'd been such a crummy audience we didn't deserve an encore, and he didn't do one.
  • (2) Sayer is referring to the Watership Alan episode of I'm Alan Partridge when irate farmers drop a dead cow from a bridge on the hapless DJ while he's trying to film a crummy commercial for Hamilton's Water Breaks.
  • (3) I am also contributing to my £1,000 deposit (which I'll get back if I win 5% of the vote), donating to the Green mayoral campaign, and I need to upgrade my crummy phone if I am to get any better at social media.
  • (4) But hardware manufacturers often default to crummy security, or don’t offer a choice, and consumers often make themselves more vulnerable than they should.
  • (5) And the prize is gonna be really crummy every week.
  • (6) In these days of Stock, Aitken & Waterman, stale re-releases and crummy cover versions, an alternative rock scene can still feel proud and puffed up despite being tainted by its own decay.
  • (7) What a crummy world if we all retreat inside our own borders.
  • (8) To say ‘Oh I want you independently and I’m going to pay you no more than you would get as a regular wage employee,’ – that seems like a really crummy deal,” said John-Paul Ferguson, an assistant professor of organisational behaviour at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
  • (9) Dead high streets full of charity shops, crummy roads, an eerie emptiness where all the commerce should be … besides a few urban heat islands and the fact that bus infrastructure, miraculously, has survived, the transformation is complete.
  • (10) Jolson was out on the sidewalk and soon out in the hinterland picking up one-night fees in crummy night clubs 1,000 miles from the Broadway he had ruled.
  • (11) Salmon calls it "an inspirational place – I love Television Centre, but let's face it some of the accommodation we are in is pretty crummy.
  • (12) We can measure Romney's crumminess by examining his favorable ratings.
  • (13) US secretary of defense James Mattis has urged allies to “bear with us”, noting it would be a “crummy world” if Americans retreated into isolationism.
  • (14) As Tim Wu chronicles it in his remarkable book, The Master Switch , each of these industries started out as an open, irrationally exuberant, chaotic muddle of incompatible standards, crummy technology and chancers.

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