breadcrumb
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breadcrumb
- /ˈbɹɛdˌkɹʌm/ US
Where it comes from
From bread + crumb. The computing and figurative senses allude to the German fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, where Hansel leaves a trail of breadcrumbs to find the way back home when venturing into the woods.
noun breadcrumbs · bread crumb
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A tiny piece of bread, either one that falls from bread as it is cut or eaten, or one made deliberately by crumbling bread.
Similar: crumb
- A single link in a chain indicating the hierarchical location of a directory, web page or similar, used as a navigation aid. Breadcrumbs usually look something like this: "Home > About Us > Staff" and are positioned near the top navigation. […] The words in the breadcrumbs are links to pages at higher levels of the website.
- A fragment of data that serves to log the actions taken by a program, used in debugging. If you believe the system can merrily proceed despite an assertion failure, code the exception handler to log the error, leaving debugging breadcrumbs behind, and return.
- One in a series of clues leading to a person or place. Before he died, James Halliday (Mark Rylance), the hermit-like, socially maladjusted tech genius who created The Oasis, hid an Easter egg somewhere in the circuitry, scattering bread crumbs that lead to its location. Find the egg, and the mogul’s fortune—along with total control of his digital fiefd
verb breadcrumbs · breadcrumbing · breadcrumbed · bread crumb
- To sprinkle breadcrumbs on to food, normally before cooking. All this breadcrumbing finished, you can put the meat on a grid over a baking dish and leave it until you are ready to cook it.
- To add navigational breadcrumbs to (a web page or user interface). Along those same lines, creating separate folders can enable you to use "breadcrumbing," which is another navigation aid (discussed in the section "Determining How to Organize the Information," later in this chapter).
- To use clues or enticements to lead someone in the desired direction. The process of breadcrumbing is the means by which a game writer can lead the player forward with a trail of clues, or the level designers can lead the player via more physical symbols.
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noun trail of hyperlinks
| 中文 | 麵包屑導航 /面包屑导航 |
|---|---|
| Français | fil d'Ariane |
noun tiny piece of bread
| Español | miga, migaja |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 빵 부스러기 ppang buseureogi, 빵가루 ppanggaru |
| 日本語 | パン屑 pankuzu, パン粉 panko |
| 中文 | 麵包屑 /面包屑 miànbāoxiè, 麵包糠 /面包糠 miànbāokāng |
| Português | migalha, farelo, pão ralado |
| Français | miette de pain, miette, panure |
| Deutsch | Brotkrümel, Brotkrume, Brosame, Brösel |
| Italiano | briciola, pangrattato, mollica |
| Ελληνικά | ψίχα psícha, τρίμμα trímma, ψίχουλο psíchoulo |
| Română | firimitură, pesmet |
| Русский | хле́бная кро́шка xlébnaja króška, кро́шка króška |
| Tiếng Việt | bột chiên xù, vụn bánh mì |
| العربية | بُقْسُمَاطْ buqsumāṭ |
| עברית | פירורי לחם \ פֵּרוּר perúrey lehém |
verb to sprinkle breadcrumbs on food
| 한국어 | 빵가루를 뿌리다 ppanggaru-reul ppurida |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | パン粉を撒く |
| 中文 | 撒麵包屑 /撒面包屑 sǎ miànbāoxiè |
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title = {breadcrumb},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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