breadcrumb en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- /ˈbɹɛdˌkɹʌm/ (US)
Etymology
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.
Meanings
- (in-plural) A tiny piece of bread, either one that falls from bread as it is cut or eaten, or one made deliberately by crumbling bread.
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(in-plural) 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.
2010, Mark Stephenson, Web-Empower Your Church:
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(in-plural) A fragment of data that serves to log the actions taken by a program, used in debugging.
[…] track metrics used to improve performance, or log a series of breadcrumbs to track an application's progress, […]
2012, Wallace B. McClure, Nathan Blevins, John J. Croft IV, Wrox Cross Platform Android and iOS Mobile Development Three-Pack: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.
2004, Jack Ganssle, The Firmware Handbook, page 276:
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(figuratively, in-plural) 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 fiefdom—is yours. It’s the ultimate capitalist scavenger hunt!
2018 March 26, A. A. Dowd, “Steven Spielberg Finds Fun, and maybe even a Soul, in the Pandering Pastiche of Ready Player One”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 31 May 2018:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| breadcrumbs | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| bread crumb | alternative | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
breadcrumby · breadcrumb sponge
Relateds
cookie (computing senses)
Synonyms
crumb (tiny piece of bread)
Translations (72)
cmn 麵包糠 /面包糠 (tiny piece of bread) · scn muḍḍica (tiny piece of bread) · yue 麵包屑 /面包屑 (tiny piece of bread) · pt migalha (tiny piece of bread) · fr fil d'Ariane (trail of hyperlinks) · hu prézli (tiny piece of bread) · ro pesmet (tiny piece of bread) · cs drobečková navigace (trail of hyperlinks) · fi leivänmurut (trail of hyperlinks) · pt pão ralado (tiny piece of bread) · de Brosame (tiny piece of bread) · cmn 麵包屑導航 /面包屑导航 (trail of hyperlinks) · fi leivänmuru (tiny piece of bread) · ms serdak roti (tiny piece of bread) · ja パン粉 (tiny piece of bread) · ro firimitură (tiny piece of bread) · it mollica (tiny piece of bread) · pt farelo (tiny piece of bread) · cs strouhanka (tiny piece of bread) · ga grabhróg aráin (tiny piece of bread) · gl migalla (tiny piece of bread) · mr ब्रेडक्रंब (trail of hyperlinks) · fi korppujauho (tiny piece of bread) · af broodkrummel (tiny piece of bread) · el τρίμμα (tiny piece of bread) · gl migallo (tiny piece of bread) · de Brotkrume (tiny piece of bread) · vi bột chiên xù (tiny piece of bread) · gl fungalla (tiny piece of bread) · fa مغز نان (tiny piece of bread) · el ψίχουλο (tiny piece of bread) · hu kenyérmorzsa (tiny piece of bread) · yi ברייזל (tiny piece of bread) · es migaja (tiny piece of bread) · sk strúhanka (tiny piece of bread) · eo panero (tiny piece of bread) · nl broodkruimel (tiny piece of bread) · es miga (tiny piece of bread) · fr panure (tiny piece of bread) · gl faragulla (tiny piece of bread) · ru кро́шка (tiny piece of bread) · gl miga (tiny piece of bread) · gl frangulla (tiny piece of bread) · ga bruscar aráin (tiny piece of bread) · ko 빵 부스러기 (tiny piece of bread) · ru хле́бная кро́шка (tiny piece of bread) · nb brødrasp (tiny piece of bread) · pl okruszek chleba (tiny piece of bread) · id panir (tiny piece of bread) · ms serbuk roti (tiny piece of bread) · fr miette de pain (tiny piece of bread) · is brauðmylsna (tiny piece of bread) · acw بُقْسُمَاط (tiny piece of bread) · pl bułka tarta (tiny piece of bread) · de Brösel (tiny piece of bread) · sl krušna drobtina (tiny piece of bread) · de Brotkrümel (tiny piece of bread) · nn brødrasp (tiny piece of bread) · ja パン屑 (tiny piece of bread) · he פירורי לחם \ פֵּרוּר (tiny piece of bread) · ar بُقْسُمَاطْ (tiny piece of bread) · ko 빵가루 (tiny piece of bread) · fr miette (tiny piece of bread) · it briciola (tiny piece of bread) · cmn 麵包屑 /面包屑 (tiny piece of bread) · el ψίχα (tiny piece of bread) · yue 麵包糠 /面包糠 (tiny piece of bread) · it pangrattato (tiny piece of bread) · pl okruszek chleba (trail of hyperlinks) · vi vụn bánh mì (tiny piece of bread) · hu zsemlemorzsa (tiny piece of bread) · tr ekmek kırıntısı (tiny piece of bread)