DOUGHNUT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small ring-shaped friedcake

Synonyms:

donut; doughnut; sinker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("doughnut" is a kind of...):

friedcake (small cake in the form of a ring or twist or ball or strip fried in deep fat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "doughnut"):

raised doughnut (a doughnut made light with yeast rather than baking powder)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A toroidal shape

Example:

a halo of smoke

Synonyms:

anchor ring; annulus; doughnut; halo; ring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("doughnut" is a kind of...):

toroid (the doughnut-shaped object enclosed by a torus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "doughnut"):

fairy circle; fairy ring (a ring of fungi marking the periphery of the perennial underground growth of the mycelium)

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Context examples:

It is like tossing a bunch of glazed doughnuts in the air — roughly the same percentage of doughnuts always will be positioned in the edge-on and face-on positions, regardless of whether they are tightly clumped or spread far apart.

(NASA's WISE findings poke hole in black hole 'Doughnut' theory, NASA)

If the unified model were true, and the hidden black holes are simply blocked from view by doughnuts in the edge-on configuration, then researchers would expect them to cluster in the same way as the exposed ones.