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# donut

noun (a donut, donuts)

«donut» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A donut is a small, sweet, fried cake, often shaped like a ring with a hole in the middle or a ball filled with jam or cream. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/donut/#m1)
2. Something shaped like a ring can be called a donut shape (in maths, a torus). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/donut/#m2)
3. (informal, mainly US) Doing donuts means driving a car round and round in tight circles, leaving round skid marks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/donut/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life a treat from a bakery; in maths problems donuts are counted, shared and sold in boxes (a dozen = 12). In geometry a donut shape is called a torus. Phrases: a box of donuts, jam donut, glazed donut.

### Examples

- I'd like a chocolate donut with sprinkles, please. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/donut/#x1)
- A box holds 12 donuts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/donut/#x2)
- The jam donut squirted when I bit into it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/donut/#x3)
- We shared 18 donuts among 6 friends, so each got 3. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/donut/#x4)
- A ring-shaped donut has a hole in the middle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/donut/#x5)
- Dad bought a dozen donuts for the class party. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/donut/#x6)
- The cake was shaped like a giant donut. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/donut/#x7)

### Note

«Donut» is the common American spelling; «doughnut» is the usual British, Irish, Australian and traditional spelling — both are correct. Plural: donuts. In maths: «a dozen donuts» = 12; «half a dozen» = 6.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «donut» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/donut/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«donut» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/donut.html) on Mova free.