breadcrumb
A tiny piece of bread, either one that falls from bread as it is cut or eaten, or one…A tiny piece of bread, either one that falls from bread as it is cut or eaten, or one made deliberately by crumbling bread.
» Tom's dog ate the breadcrumbs.
Toms Hund fraß die Brotkrümel.
Toms Hund hat die Brotkrümel gefressen.
Собака Тома з'їв сухарики.
Meaning
4 senses(in the plural)A tiny piece of bread, either one that falls from bread as it is cut or eaten, or one made deliberately by crumbling bread.
Brotkrümel, Brotkrume, Brosame
хле́бная кро́шкаxlébnaja króška, кро́шкаkróška
(in the plural)A single link in a chain indicating the hierarchical location of a directory, web page or similar, used as a navigation aid.
(in the plural)A fragment of data that serves to log the actions taken by a program, used in debugging.
(figuratively, in the plural)One in a series of clues leading to a person or place.
- crumb of bread; used especially for coating or thickening
Examples
6 sentencesTom's dog ate the breadcrumbs.
Собака Тома з'їв сухарики.
deToms Hund fraß die Brotkrümel.
Hmm, did we have some breadcrumbs?
Leave the breadcrumbs for the birds.
I crumbled the stale bun for breadcrumbs.
Sometimes I like to feed leftover breadcrumbs to the minnows in the neighborhood pond.
Translations
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Origin
From bread + crumb. The computing and figurative senses allude to the German fairy tale HaFrom bread + crumb. The computing and figurative senses allude to the German fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, where Hansel leaves a trail of breadcrumbs to find the way back home when venturing into the woods.
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