Meaning

(uncountable) A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.
2. (uncountable, by extension) A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, or soy beans.
3. (countable, informal) An individual serving of milk.
4. (countable or invariant) An individual portion of milk, such as found in a creamer, for tea and coffee.
5. The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
6. (uncountable, vulgar, slang) Semen.
7. (transitive) To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).
8. (transitive, intransitive) To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.

Example Sentences

Skyr is a product made of curdled milk.

2007 September 24, Chris Horseman (interviewee), Emily Harris (reporter), “Global Dairy Demand Drives Up Prices”, Morning Edition, National Public Radio […] there's going to be that much less milk available to cover any other uses. Which means whether it's liquid milk or whether it's [milk that's been turned into] cheese or yogurt, the price gets pulled up right across the board.

In the West it's' fairly normal to drink milk in various forms into adulthood.

Where it does fall down, however, is its nutritional value. While oats are largely a healthy grain to include in your diet, the milk is highly diluted with water, giving it little nutritional value.

For environmentally minded consumers, the news is hard to swallow: almond milk is not healthy for the planet and the popular milk substitute is especially hard on bees.

Table three ordered three milks.

I take my tea with two milks and two sugars.

I take my tea with two milk and two sugar.

Word Forms

• milks
• milking
• milked

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