butter
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Sense 1
- noun
- A1
A soft yellow fat made by beating cream, which people spread on bread or add to food when they cook.
Take the butter out of the fridge so it softens.
A thin slice of butter melted at once on the hot toast.
This cake needs three hundred grams of soft butter.
Do you prefer salted or unsalted butter for baking?
Common collocations: a pat of butter · salted butter · melt butter · spread butter · butter and jam
Part of: Dairy, Cooking, Bread and grains
Sense 2 · less common
- verb
- A2
To cover the surface of something, usually bread or a baking tin, with a layer of butter.
She buttered four thick slices and cut them in half.
Butter the tin well or the cake will stick.
He buttered his roll and reached for the honey.
Common collocations: butter the bread · butter a slice · butter the tin · lightly buttered · buttered toast
Part of: Dairy, Cooking, Bread and grains