Knead
verb
To press and fold with your hands.
She kneaded the dough before baking the bread.
Often appears as...
- knead dough
- knead bread
verb
To massage or rub with the hands.
The therapist kneaded her cramped muscles to relieve the pain.
Often appears as...
- knead muscles
- knead flesh
verb
To press and fold with your hands.
She kneaded the dough before baking the bread.
Often appears as...
- knead dough
- knead bread
verb
To massage or rub with the hands.
The therapist kneaded her cramped muscles to relieve the pain.
Often appears as...
- knead muscles
- knead flesh
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Baking Context
Knead is often used in baking to prepare dough for breads, pastries, and pizzas.
After adding flour, she started to knead the pizza dough until smooth.
Pro Tip 2/3Hand Movement
Kneading involves a specific movement: pressing, folding, and stretching the material, usually dough.
Knead the dough by pushing it with your palms, then folding it over.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Bread
Though common with bread, knead also applies to clay and other malleable materials.
The potter kneaded the clay before shaping it on the wheel.
Pro Tip 1/3Baking Context
Knead is often used in baking to prepare dough for breads, pastries, and pizzas.
After adding flour, she started to knead the pizza dough until smooth.
Pro Tip 2/3Hand Movement
Kneading involves a specific movement: pressing, folding, and stretching the material, usually dough.
Knead the dough by pushing it with your palms, then folding it over.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Bread
Though common with bread, knead also applies to clay and other malleable materials.
The potter kneaded the clay before shaping it on the wheel.
Pro Tip 1/3Baking Context
Knead is often used in baking to prepare dough for breads, pastries, and pizzas.
After adding flour, she started to knead the pizza dough until smooth.
Pro Tip 2/3Hand Movement
Kneading involves a specific movement: pressing, folding, and stretching the material, usually dough.
Knead the dough by pushing it with your palms, then folding it over.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Bread
Though common with bread, knead also applies to clay and other malleable materials.
The potter kneaded the clay before shaping it on the wheel.
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3 ways to create a space...
It wouldn't work. Now think of your set, your home, what you exist in every single day. If you're anything like me, the trash can is just too small for the amount of takeout that you buy every night, right? And I find myself jamming like I'm kneading dough at a pizza place, I'm jamming it in because I don't understand.
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A brief history of...
And he reverentially chronicles the preparation of kneaded dough balls called “lao wan.” They’re packed with pork, mutton and aromatics, dipped in black meat sauce, then quickly gobbled up, leaving people downwind to drool and fantasy-feast.
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Tanner PIPE Dangerous Jobs
cloth requires most seen to get down and dirty shoeless he can use his toes and heels to knead the skins over and over for almost three hours he Trump's around the VAT even apart from the smell it's a difficult chore requiring strength and
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Where does gold come...
through the interstellar medium, triggering a swirling dance of gas and dust that condenses into new stars and planets. Earth's gold was likely delivered this way before being kneaded into veins by geothermal activity.
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Army Ants, Orchids and...
restoration work for the flies and knead and here he is gluing extensions on to impressed males and it turns out that once they have the extensions they're fabulous this is a species that is more like a moose with
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Tanner PIPE Dangerous Jobs
the skin becomes like a piece of cloth but to transform these raw hides into leather cloth requires mow scene to get down and dirty shoeless he can use his toes and heels to knead the skins over
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The Foul, Fascinating...
the skin becomes like a piece of cloth but to transform these raw hides into leather cloth requires mow scene to get down and dirty shoeless he can use his toes and heels to knead the skins over
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Martina Flor: The secret...
I can see the bread, with just the right ingredients, being kneaded softly and carefully, in the same way the craftsman drew the ends of the letters with smooth and precise curves.
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Behind the Funyuns PIPE...
this is what's called the extrusion process inside this machine the cornmeal and water are heated and kneaded along a central screw under pressure the water
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Eva Zeisel: The playful...
After that, it had to be kneaded. It had to then go in, kind of, a mangle.
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3 ways to create a space...
It wouldn't work. Now think of your set, your home, what you exist in every single day. If you're anything like me, the trash can is just too small for the amount of takeout that you buy every night, right? And I find myself jamming like I'm kneading dough at a pizza place, I'm jamming it in because I don't understand.
Video examples
A brief history of...
And he reverentially chronicles the preparation of kneaded dough balls called “lao wan.” They’re packed with pork, mutton and aromatics, dipped in black meat sauce, then quickly gobbled up, leaving people downwind to drool and fantasy-feast.
Video examples
Tanner PIPE Dangerous Jobs
cloth requires most seen to get down and dirty shoeless he can use his toes and heels to knead the skins over and over for almost three hours he Trump's around the VAT even apart from the smell it's a difficult chore requiring strength and
Video examples
Where does gold come...
through the interstellar medium, triggering a swirling dance of gas and dust that condenses into new stars and planets. Earth's gold was likely delivered this way before being kneaded into veins by geothermal activity.
Video examples
Army Ants, Orchids and...
restoration work for the flies and knead and here he is gluing extensions on to impressed males and it turns out that once they have the extensions they're fabulous this is a species that is more like a moose with
Video examples
Tanner PIPE Dangerous Jobs
the skin becomes like a piece of cloth but to transform these raw hides into leather cloth requires mow scene to get down and dirty shoeless he can use his toes and heels to knead the skins over
Video examples
The Foul, Fascinating...
the skin becomes like a piece of cloth but to transform these raw hides into leather cloth requires mow scene to get down and dirty shoeless he can use his toes and heels to knead the skins over
Video examples
Martina Flor: The secret...
I can see the bread, with just the right ingredients, being kneaded softly and carefully, in the same way the craftsman drew the ends of the letters with smooth and precise curves.
Video examples
Behind the Funyuns PIPE...
this is what's called the extrusion process inside this machine the cornmeal and water are heated and kneaded along a central screw under pressure the water
Video examples
Eva Zeisel: The playful...
After that, it had to be kneaded. It had to then go in, kind of, a mangle.
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Claudia Winkleman
English Entertainer
Being hummed at by someone with magic hands while they knead your neck is good for the soul, but it won't make you giggle for days afterwards. In fact, the second the smiley therapist stops and says, 'You can put your robe on now, the hour is up,' the joy and wonder sort of leaves the room.
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Delia Smith
British Entertainer
Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy.
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Richard Flanagan
Australian Novelist
My secret skill is baking bread. My mother was a farmer's daughter and still made bread every day when I was a child. She would have me knead the dough when I got home from school.
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
German Scientist
Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.
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Kandyse McClure
South African Actress
I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.
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Louis Agassiz
Swiss Scientist
The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.
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Claire Denis
French Director
Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderful, sensual.
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Emile Galle
French Artist
Do glassmakers not have the ability to knead their own agates, marbles and rock crystals?
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Mary Berry
British Chef
If you're feeling a little bit down, a bit of kneading helps.
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Frank Rijkaard
Dutch Athlete
Being a manager is kneading people.
Quote examples
Claudia Winkleman
English Entertainer
Being hummed at by someone with magic hands while they knead your neck is good for the soul, but it won't make you giggle for days afterwards. In fact, the second the smiley therapist stops and says, 'You can put your robe on now, the hour is up,' the joy and wonder sort of leaves the room.
Quote examples
Delia Smith
British Entertainer
Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy.
Quote examples
Richard Flanagan
Australian Novelist
My secret skill is baking bread. My mother was a farmer's daughter and still made bread every day when I was a child. She would have me knead the dough when I got home from school.
Quote examples
Georg C. Lichtenberg
German Scientist
Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.
Quote examples
Kandyse McClure
South African Actress
I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.
Quote examples
Louis Agassiz
Swiss Scientist
The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.
Quote examples
Claire Denis
French Director
Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderful, sensual.
Quote examples
Emile Galle
French Artist
Do glassmakers not have the ability to knead their own agates, marbles and rock crystals?
Quote examples
Mary Berry
British Chef
If you're feeling a little bit down, a bit of kneading helps.
Quote examples
Frank Rijkaard
Dutch Athlete
Being a manager is kneading people.
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