knead
verb (knead, kneads, kneaded, kneading)
Everyday
- To knead means to press, fold and stretch dough with your hands to make bread. tree →
- To knead also means to press and rub muscles, like in a massage. tree →
- Cats «knead» by pushing their paws in and out on something soft. tree →
In the lessons
In cooking lessons, kneading makes the dough stretchy (it develops gluten) so bread rises. Cats knead blankets when content.
Examples
- Knead the dough for ten minutes. tree →
- My hands got sticky from kneading. tree →
- The cat kneaded my lap with its paws. tree →
- She kneaded her sore shoulders. tree →
- Kneading makes the bread soft and springy. tree →
- We kneaded the play dough into a ball. tree →
- Vasilissa took flour, kneaded dough, and made a pie. tree →
Note
Silent k: sounds the same as «need» (homophone). Spelling: kn-ead.
In Jewish tradition
At the Exodus the people took their dough before it had risen, which is why matzah is eaten on Passover. Later books show kneading as ordinary home baking, as Tamar and the woman of Endor bake. Hosea uses the baker waiting for dough to rise as a picture of people burning with wrong desires.
Interpretation. Tradition says the people left Egypt so fast that the dough had no time to rise, and matzah recalls that haste. Hosea's baker is read as a comparison for a hidden fire of wickedness that only waits its time.
Examples
- Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough. (Torah DEU.28.5, JPS 1917) tree →
- Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough. (Torah DEU.28.17, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. (Torah EXO.12.34, JPS 1917) tree →
- And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes. (Prophets 2SA.13.8, JPS 1917) tree →
- They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth to stir from the kneading of the dough until it be leavened. (Prophets HOS.7.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the woman had a fatted calf in the house; and she made haste, and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof; (Prophets 1SA.28.24, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
Silent k: sounds the same as «need» (homophone). Spelling: kn-ead.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «knead» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «knead» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
- Trees and pragmatics of «knead» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «knead» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
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