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Children play with play dough. Phrases: «knead the dough», «roll out the dough», «cookie dough», «play dough». ### Examples - We kneaded the dough for ten minutes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dough/#x1) - Leave the dough in a warm place so it can rise. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dough/#x2) - Roll out the dough and cut out star shapes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dough/#x3) - Pizza dough is stretched into a circle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dough/#x4) - The yeast makes bubbles that make the dough rise. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dough/#x5) - Don't eat raw cookie dough with raw egg or flour in it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dough/#x6) - My little sister made a dinosaur out of play dough. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dough/#x7) - "I haven't got enough dough for that," joked Dad. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dough/#x8) - Vasilissa took flour, kneaded dough, and made a pie. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dough/#x9) ### Note Silent «gh»: «dough» rhymes with «go». Homophone: «doe» (a female deer) — «Doe, a deer». Do not mix up with «doughnut» (also «donut»). Raw dough with flour or egg can make you ill. ## In Jewish tradition In the Torah, the first of the dough is set aside as a gift to the LORD, and the Israelites left Egypt with dough not yet risen. **Interpretation.** Tradition calls the portion set aside challah, which a priest once received. Today it is still separated when bread is baked, and the unleavened dough of the Exodus is remembered at Passover with matzah. ### Examples - Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD a portion for a gift throughout your generations. (Torah NUM.15.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dough/#x1) - 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dough/#x2) - Of the first of your dough ye shall set apart a cake for a gift; as that which is set apart of the threshing-floor, so shall ye set it apart. (Torah NUM.15.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dough/#x3) - 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dough/#x4) - 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dough/#x5) - The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke Me. (Prophets JER.7.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dough/#x6) ### Note Silent «gh»: «dough» rhymes with «go». Homophone: «doe» (a female deer) — «Doe, a deer». Do not mix up with «doughnut» (also «donut»). Raw dough with flour or egg can make you ill. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «dough» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dough/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«dough» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/dough.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «dough» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dough/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«dough» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/dough.html) on Mova free.