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1. (n.) butter
a soft whitish or yellowish fatty solid that separates from milk or cream when it is churned, processed for cooking and table use.
2. butter
any of various other soft spreads for bread:
apple butter; peanut butter.
3. butter
any of various substances of butterlike consistency, as certain vegetable oils solid at ordinary temperatures:
cocoa butter.
4. (v.t.) butter
to put butter on or in.
5. butter
to apply a liquefied bonding material to (a piece or area), as mortar to a course of bricks.
6. butter
butter up, to flatter, esp. so as to gain a favor from.
Etymology: (bef. 1000; ME; OE butere < L būt&ymacr;rum < Gk boút&ymacr;ron=
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) butter
an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use
2. (verb) butter
a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head
3. (verb) butter
spread butter on
"butter bread"
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1. (noun) butter
a yellow soft food made from milk
bread and butter
2. (verb) butter
to put butter on
Butter three slices of bread.
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Butter
an oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning
2. (noun) Butter
any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter
3. (noun) Butter
one who, or that which, butts
4. (verb) Butter
to cover or spread with butter
5. (verb) Butter
to increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game
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U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. Butter
The fatty portion of milk, separated as a soft yellowish solid when milk or cream is churned. It is processed for cooking and table use. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
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Sense: a fatty substance made from cream by churning.
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 Afrikaans: botter |
 Arabic: زُبْدَه |
 Bulgarian: масло |
 Brazilian: manteiga |
 Czech: máslo |
 German: die Butter |
 Danish: smør |
 Greek: βούτυρο |
 Spanish: mantequilla |
 Estonian: või |
 Farsi: کره |
 Finnish: voi |
 French: beurre |
 Hebrew: חֶמְאָה |
 Hindi: मक्खन |
 Croatian: maslac |
 Hungarian: vaj |
 Indonesian: mentega susu |
 Icelandic: smjör |
 Italian: burro |
 Japanese: バター |
 Korean: 버터 |
 Lithuanian: sviestas |
 Latvian: sviests |
 Malay: mentega |
 Dutch: boter |
 Norwegian: smør |
 Polish: masło |
 Persian: کره |
 Pashto: کوچ |
 Portuguese: manteiga |
 Romanian: unt |
 Russian: масло |
 Slovak: maslo |
 Slovenian: maslo |
 Serbian: maslac |
 Swedish: smör |
 Thai: เนย |
 Turkish: tereyağ |
 Taiwanese: 奶油 |
 Ukrainian: масло |
 Urdu: مکھن |
 Vietnamese: bơ |
 Chinese: 黄油 |
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