Bread and Backing

noun

• Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked.
  • synonyms: breadstuff, staff of life
• Informal terms for money.
  • synonyms: boodle, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum

verb

• Cover with bread crumbs.
  • usage: "bread the pork chops before frying them"

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

noun

• The act of providing approval and support.
  • usage: "his vigorous backing of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives"
  • synonyms: backup, championship, patronage
• Something forming a back that is added for strengthening.
  • synonyms: mount
• Financial resources provided to make some project possible.
  • usage: "the foundation provided support for the experiment"
  • synonyms: support, financial support, funding, financial backing

verb

• Be behind; approve of.
  • usage: "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I backed Kennedy in 1960"
  • synonyms: back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support
• Travel backward.
  • usage: "back into the driveway"; "The car backed up and hit the tree"
  • synonyms: back
• Give support or one's approval to.
  • usage: "I'll second that motion"; "I can't back this plan"; "endorse a new project"
  • synonyms: second, back, endorse, indorse
• Cause to travel backward.
  • usage: "back the car into the parking spot"
  • synonyms: back
• Support financial backing for.
  • usage: "back this enterprise"
  • synonyms: back
• Be in back of.
  • usage: "My garage backs their yard"
  • synonyms: back
• Place a bet on.
  • usage: "Which horse are you backing"; "I'm betting on the new horse"
  • synonyms: bet on, back, gage, stake, game, punt
• Shift to a counterclockwise direction.
  • usage: "the wind backed"
  • synonyms: back
• Establish as valid or genuine.
  • usage: "Can you back up your claims"
  • synonyms: back, back up
• Strengthen by providing with a back or backing.
  • synonyms: back

• (n.) The act of moving backward or of putting or moving anything backward.
• (n.) The preparation of the back of a book with glue, etc., before putting on the cover.
• (n.) That which is behind, and forms the back of, anything, usually giving strength or stability.
• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Back.
• (n.) Support or aid given to a person or cause.