crumb

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It also leads a bread crumb of clues to figure out what the code is doing.

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Quick take

a very small quantity of something; "he gave only a crumb of information about his plans"; "there were few crumbs of comfort in the report"

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noun

a very small quantity of something; "he gave only a crumb of information about his plans"; "there were few crumbs of comfort in the report"

noun

a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'"

noun

small piece of e.g. bread or cake

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for crumb.

noun

a very small quantity of something; "he gave only a crumb of information about his plans"; "there were few crumbs of comfort in the report"

noun

small piece of e.g. bread or cake

verb

coat with bread crumbs; "crumb a cutlet"

verb

break into crumbs

verb

remove crumbs from; "crumb the table"

Example sentences

It also leads a bread crumb of clues to figure out what the code is doing.

But you can check my other comment, below, for a crumb more info.

Sitting at the table of plenty but won't spare a crumb for another.

If you find an ant taking a crumb of bread from under your table you aren't afraid.

Toss bread crumbs and butter; sprinkle over the top.\n - Bake uncovered at 350° for 20 minutes.

I could have easily added the feature to read that same article in German, by a click on a flag in the bread-crumb's mini drop-down.

The "tea" you get for 6 dollars a pound in the US is, generally speaking, the crumbs and fragments leftover from making actually good tea.

But I'd prefer children to get chunks of real meat cooked well than a squirt of slime and salt and flavourings in a crumb coating which is then fried and served with a sugary sauce.

Not sure about the second batch since most of\n those got sent out.\n\n Also, I should try making these with crumbles of maple bacon.\n\n -- 2014/09/18\n\n Tried making pumpkin spice ones.

To Ayn Rand, a "rational" homeless person would rather stave to death on the streets than accept the first crumb of unearned bread or a single night's sleep under an unearned roof.

I'm sure they have it figured out on new installations, but what happens after a crumb or dust bunny gets wedged up against one side of this thing; or after it gets a bit off-balance.

When my wife is in a position such that a crumb of normal bread in her meal can cause her pain afterwards, there is no way she can eat gluten for 3 months in order to get a diagnosis by a doctor.

In that sense, I find it interesting and in fact comforting that even millions, perhaps billions of years after humanity has been erased, we will have at least left a tiny crumb hinting at our past.

They were so sensitive that they would go off if I was boiling a pot of water, or if a single crumb in the oven "burned".In the end the alarms ended up on my table, and every time when I would go cook I would remove the battery, and replace them when the time came.

In my apartment complex where I had this issue, it would have have required re-wiring, AND the apartment complex wasn't at all interested in making sure the fire alarm didn't go off if I was making toast...One little crumb burns and all of the fire alarms in the apartment would go off, not pleasant at all.