Cheese

Quick meaning: Cheese is a noun meaning (uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.

Meaning

(uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.

More Meanings

1. (countable) Any particular variety of cheese.
2. (countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
3. (uncountable, UK) A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
4. A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
5. (uncountable, colloquial) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
6. (uncountable, slang) Money.
7. (countable, UK) In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.

Example Sentences

He had a gloating expression on his face, and was perseveringly rolling a large cheese along the middle of the road.

It's time to add some cheese to this action burger! Every genre has them, everybody loves them ... it's the parodies!

A film ostensibly about the lead singer of a hair metal band killing innocent people on a future planet Earth, Alienator is the epitome of low-budget cheese.

In the tomographic images of the 30-day-old cheeses, the gantry had to be removed with image processing techniques: first, the binarised image (grey level larger than 10⁴) was eroded with a disk of three pixels.

Word Forms

• cheeses
• cheesen
• cheesing
• cheesed

Synonyms for cheese

Depending on context, synonyms include money, fromage, rush, zerg, gamebreaking, cheddar.

Antonyms for cheese

Common opposites include fill.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mozzarella, parmesan, gorgonzola, queso, mascarpone, cheddar.

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