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 Definitions of Cheese  [ʃiz]  

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Definition of 'Cheese' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) cheese
a food prepared from the curds of milk separated from the whey, often pressed and allowed to ripen.

2.  cheese
a definite mass of this substance, often shaped like a cylinder.

3.  cheese
something of similar shape or consistency.

4. (v.t.) cheese
to stop; desist.

5.  cheese
look out!

6.  cheese
run away! beat it!

7. (Slang.) cheese
an important or powerful person (usu. prec. by
the big.

Etymology:  (1905–10; perh. < Urdu chīz thing < Pers)

Definition of 'Cheese' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) cheese
a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk

2. (verb) tall mallow, high mallow, cheese, cheeseflower, Malva sylvestris
erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States

3. (verb) cheese
used in the imperative (get away, or stop it)
"Cheese it!"

4. (verb) cheese
wind onto a cheese
"cheese the yarn"


Definition of 'Cheese' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) cheese
food made from milk
six kinds of cheese; cheeses from all over the world


Definition of 'Cheese' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Cheese
the curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold

2. (noun) Cheese
a mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese

3. (noun) Cheese
the flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia)

4. (noun) Cheese
a low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration


Definition of 'Cheese' U.S. National Library of Medicine 

1.  Cheese
A nutritious food consisting primarily of the curd or the semisolid substance formed when milk coagulates.


Translation of 'Cheese' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: (any type of) a food prepared from the curd of milk and usually pressed into a mass or shape
Cheese is full of protein.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: kaas Arabic flag Arabic: جِبْنَه، جِبْن Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: сирене
Brazilian flag Brazilian: queijo Czech flag Czech: sýr German flag German: der Käse
Danish flag Danish: ost Greek flag Greek: τυρί Spanish flag Spanish: queso
Estonian flag Estonian: juust Farsi flag Farsi: پنیر Finnish flag Finnish: juusto
French flag French: fromage Hebrew flag Hebrew: גְבִינָה Hindi flag Hindi: चीज, पनीर
Croatian flag Croatian: sir Hungarian flag Hungarian: sajt Indonesian flag Indonesian: keju
Icelandic flag Icelandic: ostur Italian flag Italian: formaggio Japanese flag Japanese: チーズ
Korean flag Korean: 치즈 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: sūris Latvian flag Latvian: siers
Malay flag Malay: keju Dutch flag Dutch: kaas Norwegian flag Norwegian: ost
Polish flag Polish: ser Persian flag Persian: پنیر Pashto flag Pashto: پوڅه ، پنير
Portuguese flag Portuguese: queijo Romanian flag Romanian: brânză Russian flag Russian: сыр
Slovak flag Slovak: syr Slovenian flag Slovenian: sir Serbian flag Serbian: sir
Swedish flag Swedish: ost Thai flag Thai: เนยแข็ง Turkish flag Turkish: peynir
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 乳酪,起士 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: сир Urdu flag Urdu: پنیر
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: pho mát Chinese flag Chinese: 乳酪,奶酪

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