pepper | meaning of pepper in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishFoodpepperpep‧per1 /ˈpepə $ -ər/ ●●● S3 noun    1 [uncountable]DF a powder that is used to add a hot taste to food  salt and pepper → black pepper, white pepper2 [countable]DF a hollow red, green, or yellow vegetable, eaten either raw or cooked with other food SYN bell pepper American English → sweet pepper, cayenne pepper, red pepperExamples from the Corpuspepper• Heat oil and 1 tablespoon butter in a large, deep skillet and add leeks and a little salt and pepper.• In a large bowl, combine the milk, eggs, nutmeg, salt and pepper and pour into the shells.• Add Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper.• Pass the salt and pepper, please.• Add vinegar, salt and pepper, linen napkins and best glasses.• Discard the bay leaves and add the tomatoes, tomato pur e, black pepper and 1 tablespoon of the chopped coriander.• In a bowl, combine the red pepper, yoghurt, ketchup, tomato paste and Worcester sauce.• Add salt, pepper and oregano.• Cut the yellow peppers into strips, removing all the seeds. Weapons, Foodpepperpepper2 verb [transitive]    1 SPREADif something is peppered with things, it has a lot of those things in it or on itbe peppered with something  a speech peppered with amusing stories  The surface of the Moon is peppered with craters.Grammar Pepper is usually passive in this meaning. 2 PMWif bullets pepper something, they hit it several times  Machine gun fire peppered the front of the building.3 → pepper somebody with questions 4 DFto add pepper to food  Pepper the steak well.  peppered salami→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpuspepper• There are great ones peppered all over the division.• Over the years these walkabouts have led to a stream of inventions that now pepper construction sites all over the city.• Maiden's structure as a book is different, it is peppered with diary entries of the race and pictures.• She then continued talking to her friend in a conversation which was peppered with exactly the same word.• This detailed survey is peppered with information on how the faunas came to be collected - often by amateurs.• The first seven years of his life, then, were peppered with separations.be peppered with something• She then continued talking to her friend in a conversation which was peppered with exactly the same word.• This detailed survey is peppered with information on how the faunas came to be collected - often by amateurs.• The first seven years of his life, then, were peppered with separations.• Her short red hair was crudely shaped in a wedge and her pallid cheeks and small chin were peppered with unsightly acne.• His scores were peppered with witty indications and funny titles.Origin pepper1 Old English pipor, from Latin piper, from Greek peperi