cheese
IPA: tʃˈiz
noun
- (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.
verb
- 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).
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Examples of "cheese" in Sentences
- The butter is next to the cheese.
- Granular cheese is rich and tangy.
- The cheese is named after the town.
- Then sprinkle with the cheese and eat.
- Cheese is the best kind of food in the world.
- The cheese is characteristically pink and is soft.
- At the market, the cheese was shown to the merchants.
- Goat cheese ice cream goes well with granulated honey.
- The traditional coagulant used in cheese making is rennet coming from veal.
- Are the cucumbers shredded or pureed before they are added to the cream cheese
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