cheese

IPA: tʃˈiz

(uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
(countable) Any particular variety of cheese.
(countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
(uncountable, UK) A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
(uncountable, colloquial) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
(uncountable, slang) Money.
(countable, UK) In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
(uncountable, slang, baseball) A fastball.
(uncountable, slang) A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
(vulgar, slang) Smegma.
(technology) Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).
A low curtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.
(slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
(slang, dated, British India) The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket.
A surname.

To prepare curds for making cheese.
(technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
(slang) To smile excessively, as for a camera.
(slang) To stop; to refrain from.
(slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
(Internet slang, gaming, transitive, intransitive) To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.)
(video games, slang) To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).

Examples of "cheese" in Sentences

A cheese is flung down a hill, dozens of men chase it.
Then comes the salad and cheese, then the ices and sweets, and then _cheese savourie_ or _cheese fondu_.
The Neapolitan pizza is not smothered in cheese, the sauce is sweet and the crust is appropriately crispy and chewy.
This French gourmet blue cheese comes from the region of Auvergne and the cheese is made from milk of Salers and Aubrac cows.
The cheese used in the United States may be included under two leading classes, namely, _foreign cheese_ and _domestic cheese_.
And so it happens that some, listening to the black-throated green warbler, have brought back a report of "_Cheese, cheese, a little more cheese_."
Students at Atlantic City High School were served plain cheese sandwiches for two days this week as punishment for a cellphone-coordinated food fight that broke out recently.
They include a single malt accompanied by beer and hot dogs smothered in cheese and onions — the franks in deference to my belief that politics is the most entertaining contact sport going.
The spread of food is a Midwestern killing field: four kinds of Wisconsin cheese (five, if you count the breaded and fried mozzarella sticks), plus a tub of ranch dip large enough to bathe a toddler.
In making up these recipes, it will be well to note that unless the variety of cheese is stated explicitly, use should be made of American Cheddar cheese, or, as it is often called, _American cream cheese_, or _store cheese_.