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CHEESE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("cheese" is a kind of...):
food; solid food (any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment)
dairy product (milk and butter and cheese)
Meronyms (parts of "cheese"):
cheese rind (the rind of a cheese)
Meronyms (substance of "cheese"):
curd (coagulated milk; used to make cheese)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cheese"):
Velveeta (trademark: soft processed American cheese)
Swiss cheese (hard pale yellow cheese with many holes from Switzerland)
string cheese (cheese formed in long strings twisted together)
ricotta (soft Italian cheese like cottage cheese)
quark; quark cheese (fresh unripened cheese of a smooth texture made from pasteurized milk, a starter, and rennet)
Parmesan (hard dry sharp-flavored Italian cheese; often grated)
Muenster (semisoft pale-yellow cheese)
mozzarella (mild white Italian cheese)
Limburger (a soft white cheese with a very strong pungent odor and flavor)
Liederkranz (a soft cheese with a strong odor and flavor)
hand cheese (any cheese originally molded by hand)
grated cheese (hard or semihard cheese grated)
Gouda; Gouda cheese (mild cream-colored Dutch cheese shaped in balls)
chevre; goat cheese (made from goats' milk)
Edam (mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls encased in a red covering)
double Gloucester (a smooth firm mild orange-red cheese)
Cheshire cheese (a mild yellow English cheese with a crumbly texture)
American cheese; Armerican cheddar; cheddar; cheddar cheese (hard smooth-textured cheese; originally made in Cheddar in southwestern England)
Camembert (rich soft creamy French cheese)
brick cheese (semisoft sweet American cheese from whole milk in a brick form)
Brie (soft creamy white cheese; milder than Camembert)
bleu; blue cheese (cheese containing a blue mold)
process cheese; processed cheese (made by blending several lots of cheese)
cottage cheese; farm cheese; farmer's cheese; pot cheese (mild white cheese made from curds of soured skim milk)
triple cream; triple creme (fresh soft French cheese containing at least 72% fat)
cream cheese (soft unripened cheese made of sweet milk and cream)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States
Synonyms:
cheese; cheeseflower; high mallow; Malva sylvestris; tall mallow
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cheese" is a kind of...):
mallow (any of various plants of the family Malvaceae)
Holonyms ("cheese" is a member of...):
genus Malva; Malva (herbs and subshrubs: mallows)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wind onto a cheese
Example:
cheese the yarn
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "cheese" is one way to...):
spool (wind onto a spool or a reel)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Used in the imperative (get away, or stop it)
Example:
Cheese it!
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "cheese" is one way to...):
cease; discontinue; give up; lay off; quit; stop (put an end to a state or an activity)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples:
This is the amount in four ounces of meat plus a cup of cottage cheese.
(Dietary Proteins, NIH)
E. malodoratus has been isolated from Gouda cheese.
(Enterococcus malodoratus, NCI Thesaurus)
Isoleucine is found especially in meats, fish, cheese, eggs, and most seeds and nuts.
(Isoleucine, NCI Thesaurus)
A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles cheese.
(Cheese Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)
This substance may be formed during cooking of foods that contain sodium nitrite as a preservative, including meat, fish and cheese.
(N-Nitrosopyrrolidine, NCI Thesaurus)
Bacteria are also used in making healthy foods like yogurt and cheese.
(Bacterial Infections, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
B. casei has a distinctive cheese smell, is commonly found in milk products and on human skin, but is pathogenic and known to be associated with sepsis, meningitis, and peritonitis.
(Brevibacterium casei, NCI Thesaurus)
As we severally pushed away our plates, he noiselessly removed them, and set on the cheese.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He sat down by the roadside to partake of his bread and cheese, and then with a lighter scrip he hastened upon his way.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Oh, madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
