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A cook making hand-pulled noodles.
A noodle is a thin strip of pasta, usually cut or extruded from some
kind of dough. It is the basic unit in dishes like
spaghetti, linguine, soba, and udon. The
term often refers to moist, cooked pasta, since it has connotations of curviness and slipperiness, but also to dried noodles that
must be reconstituted by boiling or soaking in water.
The word noodle is used metaphorically for the brain.
Noodling means playing semi-random, usually improvised, music. It
usually happens in the middle of a rehearsal when the conductor is trying to say something important. Also called doodling.
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