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In some senses, doughnut is marked as figuratively, informal, US, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled with jelly/jam, custard, or cream.
The soldiers, drawn up in hollow square—how apt is this word hollow, when applied to men who have fasted, in view of promised doughnuts!—received the procession, which consisted of music, then the ladies, then the doughnuts.
One American student sought my help to take the work further in his school science project, in which he studied how doughnuts differ from cookies.
Any object in the shape of a torus.
He put on the life jacket and began paddling around. A doughnut life raft popped up out of the ocean in front of him.
Any object in the shape of a torus.
In about 1951, the same company sealed into their vacuum doughnuts the regenerative peelers so that X-ray beams or electron beams could be obtained with the sealed off commercial tubes used in […]
Any object in the shape of a torus.
Any object in the shape of a torus.
verb
To encircle something.
[…] even the notorious ‘doughnuting’ (gathering around the Member speaking) appears to have fallen out of fashion.
My body flew like a rag doll as he relentlessly and with purpose kept doughnuting the car in wilder circles.
name
The head office of the GCHQ in Cheltenham, UK.
Former hackers as well as government suits roam the curved corridors of “the Doughnut”, as GCHQ’s base is known.