English Explanatory Dictionary

cheese

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
  2. Any particular variety of cheese.
  3. A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
  4. A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
  5. A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
  6. That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
  7. Money.
  8. In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
  9. A fastball.
  10. A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
  11. Smegma.
  12. Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
verb
  1. To prepare curds for making cheese.
  2. To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
  3. To smile excessively, as for a camera.
intj
  1. Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.
noun
  1. Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
  2. The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket.
verb
  1. To stop; to refrain from.
  2. To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
noun
  1. The exploitation, or opportunity for exploitation, of an unintentional video game mechanic.
verb
  1. To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.)
  2. To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

chēz /t͡ʃiːz/ /t͡ʃiz/ en-us-cheese.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-cheese.wav

Word forms

cheese cheeses cheesen cheesing cheesed cheese!

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin cāseusbor. Proto-Germanic *kāsijaz Proto-West Germanic *kāsī Old English ċīese Middle English chese English cheese From Middle English chese, from Anglian Old English ċīese, from Proto-West Germanic *kāsī, borrowed from Latin cāseus. Doublet of queso. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Síes (“cheese”), West Frisian tsiis (“cheese”), Dutch kaas (“cheese”), German Low German Kees (“cheese”), German Käse (“cheese”).

Synonyms

money cheese fromage cheddar gamebreaking rush zerg

Antonyms

fill

Related words

butter cream milk turophile yogurt :Category:en:Cheeses

Derived words

Abertam cheese aerosol cheese a little bit of bread and no cheese American cheese Añejo cheese apple cheese apple-cheese Asiago cheese basket cheese beer cheese bleu cheese blue cheese blue-veined cheese Bonchester cheese bread-and-cheese bread and cheese bread cheese brick cheese brined cheese brown cheese Brussels' cheese Buxton Blue cheese Cabrales cheese Caerphilly cheese Caithness cheese Camembert cheese canned cheese cauliflower cheese chaffle chalk and cheese chalk for cheese Chanco cheese Chaumes cheese Cheddar cheese cheesable cheese and bread cheese and rice cheese antenna cheese-bail cheeseball cheese ball cheese board cheese-board cheeseboard cheese-borer cheese-bowl cheesebox cheese-box cheese box cheese-bug cheeseburger cheese bus cheese button cheesecake cheese-cement cheese cloth cheesecloth cheese-clout cheese coney cheese-cratch
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