Breadcrumb

Quick meaning: Breadcrumb is a noun meaning (programming, chiefly in the plural) A fragment of data that serves to log the actions taken by a program, used in debugging.

Meaning

(programming, chiefly in the plural) A fragment of data that serves to log the actions taken by a program, used in debugging.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively, in the plural) One in a series of clues leading to a person or place.
2. (transitive, cooking) To sprinkle breadcrumbs on to food, normally before cooking.
3. (graphical user interface, intransitive) To add navigational breadcrumbs to (a web page or user interface).
4. To use clues or enticements to lead someone in the desired direction.
5. (graphical user interface, chiefly 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.
6. (chiefly 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.

Example Sentences

Said chef then proceeds to cough slimy phlegm all over the veal before it is breadcrumbed.

[…] track metrics used to improve performance, or log a series of breadcrumbs to track an application's progress, […]

All this breadcrumbing finished, you can put the meat on a grid over a baking dish and leave it until you are ready to cook it.

A Swede can't imagine a more summery food than breadcrumbed Baltic herring fillets stuffed with dill or parsley and soused in an oldfashioned vinegar

Word Forms

• breadcrumbs
• bread crumb
• breadcrumbing
• breadcrumbed

Synonyms for breadcrumb

Depending on context, synonyms include crumb.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lead, crumb, breadcrust, butt, particle, crouton.

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