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Webster 1913 Edition
Cheese
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
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English
Cheese for sale in a market.
Noun
cheese (usually uncountable, plural cheeses)
- (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, colloquial) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
- (uncountable, slang) Money.
- (countable, Britain) 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.
- 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.
- 2006, US Patent 7458053, International Business Machines Corporation
- A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
- The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia).
- 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
Terms derived from cheese
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Translations
dairy product
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countable: any particular variety of cheese
slang: money
slang: fastball in baseball
See also
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cheese on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Cheese (recreational drug) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- butter
- cream
- milk
- turophile
- yogurt
Verb
cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)
- 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.
Interjection
cheese!
- (photography) Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.
- Say "cheese"! ... and there we are!
Translations
said while being photographed
Etymology 2
Probably from Persian چيز (čīz, “thing”).
Noun
cheese (uncountable)
- (slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
Derived terms
- big cheese
- sub-cheese
Etymology 3
Verb
cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)
- (slang) To stop; to refrain from.
- Cheese it, the cops!
- (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)
- (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.
- (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).