bread vs breadcrumb

bread

noun
  • Any variety of bread. 

  • Money. 

  • Food; sustenance; support of life, in general. 

  • A piece of embroidery; a braid. 

  • A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals. 

verb
  • To coat with breadcrumbs. 

  • To make broad; spread. 

  • To form in meshes; net. 

breadcrumb

noun
  • A tiny piece of bread, either one that falls from bread as it is cut or eaten, or one made deliberately by crumbling bread. 

  • A single link in a chain indicating the hierarchical location of a directory, web page or similar, used as a navigation aid. 

  • One in a series of clues leading to a person or place. 

verb
  • To add navigational breadcrumbs to (a web page or user interface). 

  • To use clues or enticements to lead someone in the desired direction. 

  • To sprinkle breadcrumbs on to food, normally before cooking. 

How often have the words bread and breadcrumb occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )