DONUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does donut mean? 

• DONUT (noun)
  The noun DONUT has 1 sense:

1. a small ring-shaped friedcake

  Familiarity information: DONUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DONUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small ring-shaped friedcake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

donut; doughnut; sinker

Hypernyms ("donut" is a kind of...):

friedcake (small cake in the form of a ring or twist or ball or strip fried in deep fat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "donut"):

raised doughnut (a doughnut made light with yeast rather than baking powder)

 Context examples 

So, the thin haze of infalling material puffs up like a donut rather than flattening out in a pancake-shaped disk.

(Hubble Uncovers Black Hole Disk that Shouldn't Exist, NASA)

They then filled the middle of the donut with the collagen-based gel, which subsequently permeated the scaffold.

(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)

Platinum decomposes hydrogen peroxide and powers propulsion of the donuts.

(Tiny swimming 'doughnuts' deliver the biomedical goods, National Science Foundation)

EXAMPLE(S): broccoli, donuts, pet treats

(Food or Food Product, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Thus, the researchers observed that those adolescents who reported different types of dietary restrictions (different types of diet, dieting very often, skipping breakfast, eating less frequently, etc.), along with those who were obese and those who had unhealthy behaviors unrelated to food (such as smoking or having insufficient sleep), felt less pleasure, attraction and desire to eat the highly palatable foods they were looking at (images of sweets, donuts, ice‑creams, chocolate crêpes, etc.).

(Obesity and food restrictions proven to be associated with less food enjoyment, University of Granada)

In this recent report, the researchers demonstrated that they can modify their donut scaffold so that it consists of six concentric rings, each able to be populated with different types of neurons.

(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)

To achieve grey-white matter compartmentalization, the researchers cut the spongy scaffold into a donut shape and populated it with rat neurons.

(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)

The result was a distinct white matter region (containing mostly cellular projections, the axons) formed in the center of the donut that was separate from the surrounding grey matter (where the cell bodies were concentrated).

(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)

In just a few days, the neurons formed functional networks around the pores of the scaffold, and sent longer axon projections through the center gel to connect with neurons on the opposite side of the donut.

(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)