raisin
- noun
- /ˈreɪzən/
- She added raisins to the cookie dough for extra sweetness.
- sun-dried raisins
- raisins and grapes
- raisins and apples
It's like we're all raisins in Jelly or jello.
- It's like we're all raisins in Jelly or jello.
- Anything from like a like a Raisin, that middle one right there.
- As the dough starts to leaven, what happens to the raisins within the dough?
- You could think of the galaxies like raisins in a rising loaf of Raisin bread.
- Expanding that likens it to Raisin bread dough that's left to rise.
- And then the, the, the berries, the, the raisins, everything just just rocks.
Examples
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Jody found a plate of oatmeal raisin cookies on the kitchen table.
Fiction book (1995) -
I throw in some golden raisins, some toasted pine nuts.
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Wait, are those raisin cookies?
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At one time, for example, Afghanistan provided 40 percent of the world's raisin market.
Academic text (2004) -
Did you get the raisins that I sent you?
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All right, cinnamon Raisin or oatmeal Raisin cookies are done.
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The ingredients were apple chunks, raisins, cinnamon, cranberries and stuff like that.
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Then there were 23 fruits, including apples, bananas, oranges, raisins, and tomatoes.
Academic text (2007) -
However, the company generates between 60,000 and 80,000 gal/day of wastewater, primarily from the raisin-washing process.
Academic text (2003) -
They're going to be popping in and out over the next half-an-hour or so, fetching, carrying, handing round bowls of nuts and raisins during the quiet portions.
Synonyms
A small dried fruit like a tiny raisin that people use in baking
A small sweet pale yellow grape often dried to make raisins
A raisin that still has its hard seed inside
Idioms
- Offensive
A joking saying that people of Asian background seem to stay looking young for a long time
Compounds
How Sweet
Surface Forms
Etymology
Raisin comes from an old French word raisin that meant 'grape'. Merchants often said raisin sec ('dry grape') for the dried fruit, and the 'sec' was dropped, so raisin came to mean a 'dried grape'.