What's the difference between bread and tread?

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).

Tread


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To set the foot; to step.
  • (v. i.) To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step.
  • (v. i.) To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males.
  • (v. t.) To step or walk on.
  • (v. t.) To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path.
  • (v. t.) To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
  • (v. t.) To copulate with; to feather; to cover; -- said of the male bird.
  • (n.) A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; a footstep; as, a nimble tread; a cautious tread.
  • (n.) Manner or style of stepping; action; gait; as, the horse has a good tread.
  • (n.) Way; track; path.
  • (n.) The act of copulation in birds.
  • (n.) The upper horizontal part of a step, on which the foot is placed.
  • (n.) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
  • (n.) The part of a wheel that bears upon the road or rail.
  • (n.) The part of a rail upon which car wheels bear.
  • (n.) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
  • (n.) A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Will it continue treading water, deciding cases in pretty much the same way as the law lords used to do - although using blunter language?
  • (2) He has to tread some of the same path as Joe Biden but without the posturing and aggression.
  • (3) I'm not in the least ambitious, never have been, and I don't tread on people.
  • (4) Dombey treads proudly towards his doom with the author's unheard warnings ringing in his ears.
  • (5) Admittedly, there has been a bit of sour grapes in the English response to the success of Dempsey et al, and no doubt we will be treading those grapes into wine and drinking ourselves into oblivion if Team USA get much further – they are, as today's typically excitable NY Daily News front page informs us, now just "four wins from glory" .
  • (6) Kristen Woolf, girl-centred practice and strategy director, The Girl Hub , London, UK, @girleffect Don't lose focus on girls: Very clearly men and boys have got to be a central component of the solution, but we need to tread carefully here not to lose the focus on equality and empowerment for girls and women.
  • (7) Incongruous and illusory depth cues, arising from 'interference patterns' produced by overlapping linear grids at the edges of escalator treads, may contribute to the disorientation experienced by some escalator users, which in turn may contribute to the causes of some of the many escalator accidents which occur.
  • (8) This assignment to Cairo had been relatively routine - an opportunity to get to know Egyptian politics a little better; but with only three weeks on the ground, hardly time to do anything other than tread water.
  • (9) UK schools are treading water when we know that matching the very best could boost the growth rate by one percentage point every year.
  • (10) A noninvasive criterion of occlusions of the lower limb arteries was elaborated from the results of transcutaneous measurement of oxygen tension (TmO2) during treading on a treadmill.
  • (11) 1982) suggested to require DA (head weaving, reciprocal forepaw treading).
  • (12) But the oxygen saturations on swimming were in all patients higher than after tread-wheel exercise.
  • (13) The changes at CDC, which is supposed to invest where other investors fear to tread, follow criticism of the organisation for focusing too much on profits and not enough on development.
  • (14) Now he’s remarried, with a young, new family, and treading the boards on Broadway.
  • (15) These figures illustrate how millions of people are treading water, struggling to keep afloat and afford the very basics.
  • (16) It was only when I was criticized for writing science fiction that I realized I was treading on sacred ground."
  • (17) That line is trickier to tread for working-class comics, into which category Bishop – with a Liverpool accent so rich it's got calories – falls.
  • (18) We tread a fine line and, because each picture is judged on its merits on the day, it is very difficult to have hard and fast rules.
  • (19) Where German officials have feared to tread, dramatists have rushed in.
  • (20) That doesn’t mean no one should ever criticise Israel, for fear of treading on Jewish sensitivities.