See breadcrumb in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "psícha",
"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"code": "el",
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"roman": "trímma",
"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"word": "prézli"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"word": "zsemlemorzsa"
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"code": "id",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"word": "panir"
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"english": "a single bread crumb",
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"word": "빵가루"
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"word": "bułka tarta"
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "xlébnaja króška",
"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"tags": [
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"word": "хле́бная кро́шка"
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"word": "muḍḍica"
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"word": "ekmek kırıntısı"
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"word": "bột chiên xù"
},
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "tiny piece of bread",
"word": "vụn bánh mì"
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"code": "yi",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "trail of hyperlinks",
"word": "麵包屑導航 /面包屑导航"
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"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "trail of hyperlinks",
"word": "drobečková navigace"
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "leivänmurut"
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "trail of hyperlinks",
"word": "fil d’Ariane"
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"code": "mr",
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"word": "ब्रेडक्रंब"
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"ref": "2009, Elizabeth David, Omelette and a Glass Of Wine, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "2010, Teri Louise Kelly, Sex, Knives and Bouillabaisse, →ISBN:",
"text": "Said chef then proceeds to cough slimy phlegm all over the veal before it is breadcrumbed.",
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"ref": "2011, Sten Sture Skaldeman, Lose Weight by Eating, →ISBN:",
"text": "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",
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"ref": "2003, Kreta Chandler, Karen Hyatt, Customer-centered Design: A New Approach to Web Usability, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "2016, Christopher W. Totten, An Architectural Approach to Level Design, →ISBN, pages 198–199:",
"text": "I consider where more landmarks are needed and other changes for better flow and breadcrumbing.",
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"ref": "2016, Artur Lugmayr, Cinzia Dal Zotto, Media Convergence Handbook - Vol. 2: Firms and User Perspectives, →ISBN:",
"text": "An alternate reality game—ARG—is an interactive narrative that uses the real world as its media platform and uses storytelling “bread-crumbed” across several media to deliver a story that is altered and impacted in real time by the participants' ideas and actions (Dena, 2008; Denward & Waern, 2008; Werner, 2008).",
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"ref": "2016, Domino Finn, Heart Strings:",
"text": "It was what had attracted me to her in the first place. \"You can say something,\" I said. \"I'm easy to talk to.\" She frowned. The last time we had a private talk, in her kitchen, she admitted to playing me for a fool, making me fall in love with her, and breadcrumbing my way to discovering a deadly necromantic artifact.",
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"sense": "to sprinkle breadcrumbs on food",
"word": "撒麵包屑 /撒面包屑"
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