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/kɹiːm/ · noun
The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder..
Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar…
Hundreds of examples remain, still following the same general pattern—maroon, green or chocolate brown, for example, from ground to waist level, then a stale Cheddar cheese shade of cream above.
Originally the cream filling in Oreo cookies was made with pork lard.
the cream of the crop
the cream of a collection of books or pictures
Welcome, O flower and cream of Knights-errant.
“But the cream of it was," said Norman, pressing a large tortoiseshell-rimmed monocle into his eye, “you don't mind me telling this, Face, do you?”
[…] he can assure the assembled Deans that all this is true, and that the Academy has presently in residence no fewer than a third of the continent’s top thirty juniors, in age brackets all across the board, and that I here, who go by ‘Hal,’ usually, am ‘right up there among the very cream.’
Use cream when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cream means The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder..
Common synonyms include crème, creme, ream, emollient.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar…
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