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JULIENNE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A clear soup garnished with julienne vegetables

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("julienne" is a kind of...):

soup (liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A vegetable cut into thin strips (usually used as a garnish)

Synonyms:

julienne; julienne vegetable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("julienne" is a kind of...):

veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cut into long thin strips

Example:

julienne the potatoes

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "julienne" is one way to...):

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

The chefs julienne the vegetables

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