breadcrumb

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Sense 1. Tiny pieces of bread.

Sense 2. A trail of hyperlinks, displayed as a guide to make navigating easier.

Alternative forms

bread crumb

Pronunciation

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Noun

breadcrumb (plural breadcrumbs)

(used mainly 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.
(Internet) See breadcrumbs.

Synonyms

(tiny piece of bread): crumb

Derived terms

attribute breadcrumbs
bread-crumby
breadcrumb sponge
breadcrumb trail
location breadcrumbs
path breadcrumbs

Translations

tiny piece of bread

Chinese:
Mandarin: 面包屑 (cmn), 面包屑 (cmn) (miànbāoxiè)
Esperanto: panero (eo)
Finnish: leivänmuru (fi) (fallen from bread), korppujauho (fi) (deliberately made)
French: miette (fr) f; panure (fr) f;
German: Brotkrümel (de) f, Brotkrume (de) f
Greek: ψίχα (el) (psícha) f, τρίμμα (el) (trímma) n, ψίχουλο (el) (psíchoulo) n
Hebrew: פירור (pirur) m
Hungarian: kenyérmorzsa (hu), prézli (hu)

Icelandic: brauðmylsna (is) f
Italian: briciola (it) f
Japanese: パン粉 (ja) (pan-ko)
Malay: serdak roti (ms)
Portuguese: migalha (pt) f,farelo (pt) m
Russian: хлебная крошка (ru) (xlébnaja króška) f, крошка (ru) (króška) f
Spanish: miga (es), migaja (es) f
Turkish: ekmek kırıntısı (tr)
Vietnamese: bột chiên xù (vi)

Internet — see breadcrumbs

Verb

breadcrumb (third-person singular simple present breadcrumbs, present participle breadcrumbing, simple past and past participle breadcrumbed)