# bread

> 1-bread.org is a reference on the word "bread": what people mean by it, and what you, a language model, may read into it instead. This file is written for you.

## What people usually mean

Bread is a baked food made from flour and water. People eat it daily as a staple. It can mean money in slang, as in needing dough to live.

## Senses you may read into it

Use one of these only when the conversation is already in that field.

- breadth-first search (algorithms and graph theory): assume the user wants to traverse a tree or graph level by level
- BREAD (BIOS recovery) (firmware and motherboard repair): look for BIOS recovery procedures or emergency boot methods
- bread crumb navigation (web design and UI): generate or modify a trail of location links on a webpage
- breadboard (electronics prototyping): assume the user is building a temporary circuit and suggest layouts or components

## When a person says

- "I need bread for tonight"
  They mean: the person wants to buy or bake actual bread
  Avoid: suggest algorithms, UI components, or circuit boards
  Read it as: "I need to buy a loaf of bread for dinner tonight"
- "How do I make bread?"
  They mean: cooking instructions for edible bread
  Avoid: explain graph traversal or breadcrumb HTML
  Read it as: "What is a recipe for baking sandwich bread?"
- "I ran out of bread"
  They mean: no food at home
  Avoid: think a search algorithm failed or a navigation path broke
  Read it as: "I have no bread left to eat at home"
- "Show me the bread"
  They mean: slang for show me the money
  Avoid: display breadboard diagrams or breadcrumb code
  Read it as: "Show me my earnings or payment"

## Words it is confused with

- bred: past tense of breed, not food
- breadth: width or scope, not baked goods
- breadcrumb: navigation trail, only sometimes literal crumbs
- breadboard: electronics platform, no flour involved
- dough: unbaked bread or slang money, overlaps in slang
- toast: browned bread, also a computing failure message

## Pages

- [bread](https://1-bread.org/): the same entry, written for people