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Webster 1913 Edition


Cheese

Cheese

(chēz)
,
Noun.
[OE.
chese
, AS.
cēse
, fr. L.
caseus
, LL.
casius
. Cf.
Casein
.]
1.
The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.
2.
A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese.
3.
The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (
Malva rotundifolia
).
[Colloq.]
4.
A low courtesy; – so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman’s dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.
De Quincey.
Thackeray.
Cheese cake
,
a cake made of or filled with, a composition of soft curds, sugar, and butter.
Prior
. –
Cheese fly
(Zool.)
,
a black dipterous insect (
Piophila casei
) of which the larvæ or maggots, called skippers or hoppers, live in cheese.
Cheese mite
(Zool.)
,
a minute mite (
Tryoglyhus siro
) in cheese and other articles of food.
Cheese press
,
a press used in making cheese, to separate the whey from the curd, and to press the curd into a mold.
Cheese rennet
(Bot.)
,
a plant of the Madder family (
Golium verum
, or
yellow bedstraw
), sometimes used to coagulate milk. The roots are used as a substitute for madder.
Cheese vat
,
a vat or tub in which the curd is formed and cut or broken, in cheese making.

Webster 1828 Edition


Cheese

CHEESE

, n.
1.
The curd of milk, coagulated by rennet, separated from the serum or whey, and pressed in a vat, hoop or mold.
2.
A mass of pumice or ground apples placed on a press.

Definition 2024


Cheese

Cheese

See also: cheese

English

Proper noun

Cheese (plural Cheeses)

  1. A surname.

Derived terms

  • Cleese (a surname derived from Cheese)

cheese

cheese

See also: Cheese

English

Cheese for sale in a market.

Noun

cheese (usually uncountable, plural cheeses)

  1. (uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
  2. (countable) Any particular variety of cheese.
  3. (countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
  4. (uncountable, colloquial) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
  5. (uncountable, slang) Money.
  6. (countable, Britain) In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
  7. (uncountable, slang, baseball) A fastball.
  8. (uncountable, slang) A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
  9. (vulgar, slang) Smegma.
  10. (technology) Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
    • 2006, US Patent 7458053, International Business Machines Corporation
      It is known in the art to insert features that are electrically inactive (“fill structures”) into a layout to increase layout pattern density or and to remove features from the layout (“cheese structures”) to decrease layout pattern density.
  11. A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
  12. The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia).
  13. 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.
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Hyponyms
  • See also Wikisaurus:cheese
Antonyms
  • fill (dummy pattern to increase pattern density)
Derived terms
Translations
See also

Verb

cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)

  1. To prepare curds for making cheese.
  2. (technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
  3. (slang) To smile excessively, as for a camera.

Interjection

cheese!

  1. (photography) Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.
    Say "cheese"! ... and there we are!
Translations

Etymology 2

Probably from Persian چيز (čīz, thing).

Noun

cheese (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Verb

cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)

  1. (slang) To stop; to refrain from.
    Cheese it, the cops!
  2. (slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
    All this waiting around is really cheesing me off.
Derived terms

Etymology 4

From cheesy.

Verb

cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)

  1. (video games) To use an unsporting tactic; to repeatedly use an attack which is overpowered or difficult to counter.
    You can cheese most of the game using certain exploits.
  2. (video games) To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).
Synonyms
  • (use a surprise all-in strategy early in a game): rush, zerg