doughnut
doughnut — noun
1. A small, sweet cake made from fried dough, often ring-shaped and sometimes stuff
A small, sweet cake made from fried dough, often ring-shaped and sometimes stuffed with jam, custard, or cream.
Esme bought a box of glazed doughnuts from the new bakery in town.
common collocation: glazed doughnuts
The café near the station serves warm doughnuts with chocolate sauce.
collocation: warm doughnuts with [topping]
On Saturday mornings, Wei and his daughter like to share a jam-filled doughnut.
Nila bit into the doughnut and custard spilled onto her plate.
- donut
informal spelling variant, very common in American English signage and menus
文法句型
adjective + doughnut
doughnut + with [filling]
jam/glazed/chocolate doughnut
常見錯誤
2. A soft, ring-shaped cushion that you wrap your hair around to create a round, ra
A soft, ring-shaped cushion that you wrap your hair around to create a round, raised bun hairstyle.
Antonia used a hair doughnut to make her bun look bigger and neater.
collocation: hair doughnut
You can buy a doughnut for your hair at most beauty supply stores.
prepositional phrase: doughnut for [body part]
Ritu twisted her ponytail around the doughnut to form a perfect ballerina bun.
A fabric doughnut works better than a sock for holding thick hair in place.
- bun shaper
alternative name focusing on the function rather than the shape
- hair donut
common informal spelling variant of the same product
文法句型
hair doughnut
doughnut + bun
use a doughnut for [hairstyle]
用法筆記
The hair doughnut is a fabric cushion, not an actual food item. It is often called a 'bun shaper' or 'bun maker' in shops.
3. A driving trick in which a car spins in a tight circle, leaving a ring-shaped sk
A driving trick in which a car spins in a tight circle, leaving a ring-shaped skid mark on the road or ground.
The driver lost control, doing a doughnut in the middle of the empty parking lot.
common verb collocation: do a doughnut
Omar watched a video of a rally driver pulling perfect doughnuts on a dirt track.
verb collocation: pull a doughnut
Pulling a doughnut too fast can damage the car's tyres and suspension.
The police found skid marks on the road where someone had done a doughnut overnight.
- donut
same spelling variant as the food; equally common in informal driving contexts
- 360-degree skid
more technical and descriptive; less idiomatic
文法句型
do a doughnut
pull a doughnut
用法筆記
Almost always used with the verbs 'do' or 'pull'. In British English, this maneuver is more commonly called 'doing a doughnut' than any alternative name.
4. Any object or shape that is round with a hole through the middle, similar in for
Any object or shape that is round with a hole through the middle, similar in form to a ring or a torus.
In geometry class, the students learned that a torus is a doughnut-shaped surface.
compound adjective: doughnut-shaped
The particle accelerator has a massive doughnut-shaped tunnel that stretches for miles underground.
Engineers designed a doughnut of concrete and steel to support the pressure in the reactor.
Astronomers observed a glowing doughnut of gas and dust surrounding the black hole.
文法句型
doughnut-shaped
doughnut of [material]
用法筆記
In everyday speech, this sense is rare. Most people use 'doughnut' to mean the food (sense 1). The technical meaning appears mainly in mathematics, physics, and engineering writing.