Bread vs. Sandwich — What's the Difference?

Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour and water, usually by baking. Throughout recorded history, it has been a prominent food in large parts of the world.

A sandwich is a food typically consisting of vegetables, sliced cheese or meat, placed on or between slices of bread, or more generally any dish wherein bread serves as a container or wrapper for another food type. The sandwich began as a portable, convenient finger food in the Western world, though over time it has become prevalent worldwide.

A staple food made from flour or meal mixed with other dry and liquid ingredients, usually combined with a leavening agent, and kneaded, shaped into loaves, and baked.

An item of food consisting of two pieces of bread with a filling between them, eaten as a light meal

Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life

Relating to a sandwich course

Something that nourishes; sustenance

Insert or squeeze (someone or something) between two other people or things, typically in a restricted space or so as to be uncomfortable

Means of support; livelihood

Two or more slices of bread with a filling such as meat or cheese placed between them.

(Slang) Money.

A partly split long or round roll containing a filling.

To coat with bread crumbs, as before cooking

One slice of bread covered with a filling.

(uncountable)

Something resembling a sandwich

A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.

To insert (one thing) tightly between two other things often of differing character or quality. "She showed me her wedding band, which was sandwiched on the same finger between two prettier, fancier rings" (Dan Leone).

Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

To collide with or crash into (a person, for example) with impacts on opposing sides

(countable) Any variety of bread.

To make room or time for

Money.

A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serve(s) as the wrapper or container of some other food.

Breadth.

Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.

A piece of embroidery; a braid.

(UK) A layer cake or sandwich cake.

(transitive) To coat with breadcrumbs.

(archaic) A sandwichman one who wears a sandwich board.

To make broad; spread.

To place one item physically between two other, usually flat, items.

(transitive) To form in meshes; net.

(figuratively) To put or set something between two others, in time.

To spread.

(sex) To double penetrate

To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.

To feed sandwiches.

An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.

To eat sandwiches.

Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

(US) Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner. en

Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked

Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them.

Informal terms for money

To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.

Cover with bread crumbs;

Two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them

Make into a sandwich

Insert or squeeze tightly between two people or objects;