loaf

English Thesaurus

1. a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape (noun.food)

hypernym	:	food, solid food,
definition	:	any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment (noun.food)

hyponym	:	loaf sugar, sugar loaf, sugarloaf,
definition	:	a large conical loaf of concentrated refined sugar (noun.food)

hyponym	:	pound cake,
definition	:	rich loaf cake made of a pound each of butter and sugar and flour (noun.food)

hyponym	:	haslet,
definition	:	heart and liver and other edible viscera especially of hogs; usually chopped and formed into a loaf and braised (noun.food)

hyponym	:	headcheese,
definition	:	sausage or jellied loaf made of chopped parts of the head meat and sometimes feet and tongue of a calf or pig (noun.food)

hyponym	:	lunch meat, luncheon meat,
definition	:	any of various sausages or molded loaf meats sliced and served cold (noun.food)

hyponym	:	scrapple,
definition	:	scraps of meat (usually pork) boiled with cornmeal and shaped into loaves for slicing and frying (noun.food)

2. a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating (noun.food)

hypernym	:	bread, breadstuff, staff of life,
definition	:	food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked (noun.food)

hyponym	:	french loaf,
definition	:	a loaf of French bread (noun.food)

hyponym	:	meat loaf, meatloaf,
definition	:	a baked loaf of ground meat (noun.food)

part holonym	:	heel,
definition	:	one of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread (noun.food)

3. be about (verb.stative)

hypernym	:	be,
definition	:	have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) (verb.stative)

hyponym	:	lurch, prowl,
definition	:	loiter about, with no apparent aim (verb.stative)

4. be lazy or idle (verb.stative)

hypernym	:	idle, laze, slug, stagnate,
definition	:	be idle; exist in a changeless situation (verb.social)

5. be about (verb.stative)

derivation	:	dallier, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, lounger, mope,
definition	:	someone who wastes time (noun.person)

derivation	:	lingerer, loiterer,
definition	:	someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place (noun.person)

6. be lazy or idle (verb.stative)

derivation	:	bum, do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer,
definition	:	person who does no work (noun.person)

7. be about (verb.stative)

derivation	:	dallier, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, lounger, mope,
definition	:	someone who wastes time (noun.person)

derivation	:	lingerer, loiterer,
definition	:	someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place (noun.person)

8. be lazy or idle (verb.stative)

derivation	:	bum, do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer,
definition	:	person who does no work (noun.person)