This shows grade level based on the word's complexity. This shows grade level based on the word's complexity. verb (used with object) to work (dough, clay, etc.) into a uniform mixture by pressing, folding, and stretching. to manipulate by similar movements, as the body in a massage. to make by kneading: to knead bread. to make kneading movements with: She kneaded her fist into her palm. QUIZ SHALL WE
PLAY A "SHALL" VS. "SHOULD" CHALLENGE? Should you take this quiz on “shall” versus “should”? It should prove to be a quick challenge! Question 1 of 6 Which form is commonly used with other verbs to express intention? before 950; Middle English kneden,Old English cnedan; cognate with German kneten,Dutch kneden
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knead, kneaded butter, Knebworth House, knee, knee action,
knee bend Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2022 massage,
rub, aerate, alter, blend, form,
manipulate, mold, ply, press, push,
shape, squeeze, stroke, twist, workOrigin of knead
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COMFIER The Comfier Shiatsu Neck & Back Massager uses slow, targeted movements to knead the back, shoulders, neck, and thighs.
These recipes may be just different enough that no-knead bread is less a technique than a broader concept, but only one of them, in the end, became the default.
To use, let the head of the massager glide over your skin, kneading the targeted muscle for a minute or two.
Once the dough is combined, turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth.
“He had his arm around her and was kind of kneading her shoulder,” Gilmore said.
Mix together then knead to make a soft, smooth, elastic dough.
Pour in the chicken stock and knead with your hands until the bread is very moist, actually wet.
The chocolate is put in large conching machines that spin it though whirling blades to knead it for hours.
One may see the ferocious small animal knead the dead bee for half an hour, squeeze him like a lemon, drink him out like a gourd.
Knead over the bits that are left from cutting the biscuits out until all the dough has been used.
Knead it on the board till it is very fine and smooth; raise over night.
It is not necessary to knead bread more than once to secure lightness.
The bread now being ready to knead, Miss Corson recurred to that subject.
British Dictionary definitions for knead
verb (tr)
to work and press (a soft substance, such as bread dough) into a uniform mixture with the hands to squeeze, massage, or press with the hands to make by kneading
Derived forms of knead
kneader, noun
Word Origin for knead
Old English cnedan; related to Old Saxon knedan, Old Norse knotha
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Combinatorial objects closely related to kneading sequences are the so-called internal addresses.
Sharp determinants and kneading operators for holomorphic maps.
In the second part of this section, we recall some important facts about kneading sequences.
Observe that the cases in (iii) can only occur if at least one of the two given kneading sequences and is non-admissible.
For the transition matrices corresponding to periodic kneading sequences, the discriminant is proved to be an invariant when the characteristic polynomial is irreducible.
On the other hand, there are kneading sequences which are not realized at all.
Given the kneading sequence, we will use symbolic dynamics to understand how the hairs are tangled together.
Dynamical zeta functions and kneading operators.
Typical performance gestures are grabbing and kneading.
Of crucial importance in this construction is the kneading invariant, a sequence that is derived from the topology of the basins of attraction of the attracting cycle.
What you need to know to knead.
This is no restriction when investigating the structure of the space of can be approximated arbitrarily kneading sequences, since any kneading sequence in well by -periodic sequences.
Hubbard trees and kneading sequences for unicritical and cubic polynomials.
Suppose g has periodic kneading ^ sequences.
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