Definitions for MILK
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. milknoun

   a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings

2. milknoun

   produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young

3. Milk, Milk Rivernoun

   a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River

4. milkverb

   any of several nutritive milklike liquids

5. milkverb

   take milk from female mammals

   "Cows need to be milked every morning"

6. milkverb

   exploit as much as possible

   "I am milking this for all it's worth"

7. milkverb

   add milk to

   "milk the tea"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. milknoun

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

2. milknoun

   A white (or whitish) colored liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as soy beans, coconuts, almonds, rice, oats. Also called non-dairy milk.

3. milknoun

   An individual serving of milk.

   Table three ordered three milks. (Formally: The guests at table three ordered three glasses of milk.)

4. milknoun

   semen

5. milkverb

   To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).

   The farmer milked his cows.

6. milkverb

   To express any liquid (from any creature).

7. milkverb

   To talk or write at length about (a particular point).

8. milkverb

   To take advantage of (a situation).

   When the audience began laughing, the comedian milked the joke for more laughs.

9. Etymology: From meolc, from meluks, from h₂melg̑-. Indo-European cognates include Latin mulgeo, Ancient Greek ἀμέλγω, Albanian mjel,mil, Russian молозиво, Lithuanian melžti, Welsh blith, Tocharian A malke. Compare also Danish mælk, Dutch melk, West Frisian molke, German Milch, Norwegian melk/mjølk, Swedish mjölk, Yiddish. Polish mleko

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. MILKnoun

   Etymology: meelc , Saxon; melck, Dutch.

   1. The liquor with which animals feed their young from the breast.

   Come to my woman’s breasts,
   And take my milk for gall, you murthering ministers!
   Where-ever in your sightless substances
   You wait on nature’s mischief. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   I fear thy nature,
   It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness
   To catch the nearest way. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   Milk is the occasion of many tumours of divers kinds. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.

   When milk is dry’d with heat,
   In vain the milkmaid tugs an empty teat. Dryden.

   I concluded, if the gout continued, to confine myself wholly to the milk diet. William Temple, Miscel.

   Broths and milk-meats are windy to stomachs troubled with acid ferments. John Floyer, on the Humours.

   2. Emulsion made by contusion of seeds.

   Pistachoes, so they be good and not musty, joined with almonds in almond milk, or made into a milk of themselves, like unto almond milk, are an excellent nourisher. Francis Bacon.

2. To Milkverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To draw milk from the breast by the hand.

   Capacious chargers all around were laid
   Full pails, and vessels of the milking trade. Alexander Pope, Odyssey.

   2. To suck.

   I have given suck, and know
   How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me. William Shakespeare.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Milk

   Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals (including breastfed human infants) before they are able to digest solid food. Immune factors and immune-modulating components in milk contribute to milk immunity. Early-lactation milk, which is called colostrum, contains antibodies that strengthen the immune system, and thus reduces the risk of many diseases. Milk contains many nutrients, including protein and lactose.As an agricultural product, dairy milk is collected from farm animals. In 2011, dairy farms produced around 730 million tonnes (800 million short tons) of milk from 260 million dairy cows. India is the world's largest producer of milk and the leading exporter of skimmed milk powder, but it exports few other milk products. Because there is an ever-increasing demand for dairy products within India, it could eventually become a net importer of dairy products. New Zealand, Germany and the Netherlands are the largest exporters of milk products. The US CDC recommends that children over the age of 12 months should have two servings of dairy milk products a day.More than six billion people worldwide consume milk and milk products, and between 750 and 900 million people live in dairy-farming households.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. milk

   Milk is a nutrient-rich white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for infant mammals before they are capable of digesting solid food. In many cultures, it is also processed into different products such as cheese, butter, yogurt and cream. Milk from other animals, most commonly cows, goats, and sheep, is consumed by humans, often after being pasteurized. It contains valuable nutrients such as calcium, protein, vitamins, and other minerals beneficial to health.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Milknoun

   a white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts

2. Milknoun

   a kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex

3. Milknoun

   an emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water

4. Milknoun

   the ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster

5. Milkverb

   to draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of

6. Milkverb

   to draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows

7. Milkverb

   to draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder

8. Milkverb

   to draw or to yield milk

9. Etymology: [AS. meoluc, meoloc, meolc, milc; akin to OFries. meloc, D. melk, G. milch, OHG. miluh, Icel. mjlk, Sw. mjlk, Dan. melk, Goth. miluks, G. melken to milk, OHG. melchan, Lith. milszti, L. mulgere, Gr. 'ame`lgein. 107. Cf. Milch, Emulsion, Milt soft roe of fishes.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Milk

   Milk is a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals before they are able to digest other types of food. Early-lactation milk contains colostrum, which carries the mother's antibodies to the baby and can reduce the risk of many diseases in the baby. It also contains many other nutrients. As an agricultural product, milk is extracted from mammals and used as food for humans. Worldwide, dairy farms produced about 730 million tonnes of milk in 2011. India is the world's largest producer and consumer of milk, yet neither exports nor imports milk. New Zealand, the European Union's 27 member states, Australia, and the United States are the world's largest exporters of milk and milk products. China and Russia are the world's largest importers of milk and milk products. Throughout the world, there are more than 6 billion consumers of milk and milk products. Over 750 million people live within dairy farming households. Milk is a key contributor to improving nutrition and food security particularly in developing countries. Improvements in livestock and dairy technology offer significant promise in reducing poverty and malnutrition in the world.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Milk

   milk, v.t. to squeeze or draw milk from: to supply with milk.—n. a white liquid secreted by female mammals for the nourishment of their young: a milk-like juice of certain plants.—adj. Milk′en, consisting of milk, or like milk.—ns. Milk′en-way (Bacon), the milky-way, the galaxy; Milk′er, one who milks: a machine for milking cows: a cow that gives milk; Milk′-fē′ver, a fever accompanying the secretion of milk shortly after childbirth.—adv. Milk′ily.—ns. Milk′iness; Milk′ing, the amount of milk drawn at one time; Milk′ing-stool, a stool on which the milker sits while milking; Milk′ing-time; Milk′ing-tube, a perforated tube inserted in a cow's teat to let the milk flow without pressing the udder; Milk′-kin′ship, the kinship arising from fostering.—adj. Milk′-liv′ered (Shak.), white-livered: cowardly.—ns. Milk′maid, a woman who milks: a dairymaid; Milk′man, a man who sells milk, esp. from door to door; Milk′-mō′lar, one of the grinders or back teeth in young animals, early shed and replaced by another; Milk′-porr′idge, porridge made with milk instead of water; Milk′-punch, an excellent but very heady drink made of milk, rum or whisky, sugar, and nutmeg; Milk′-sick′ness (U.S.), a kind of malignant fever affecting cattle, also men; Milk′sop, a piece of bread sopped or soaked in milk: an effeminate, silly fellow; Milk′-this′tle, the lady's thistle; Milk′-tooth, one of the first fore-teeth of a foal: one of the first teeth of a child; Milk′-tree, a tree yielding a milk-like, nourishing juice, as the cow-tree of South America; Milk′-vetch, a plant sometimes cultivated as food for cattle; Milk′-walk, a milkman's route.—adj. Milk′-warm, warm as new milk.—ns. Milk′-weed, a general name for plants of the genus Asclepias, from their milky juice; Milk′-wort, a genus of handsome flowering plants, containing a milk-like juice.—adj. Milk′y, made of, full of, like, or yielding milk: soft: gentle.—n. Milk′y-way (astron.), the galaxy, a broad, luminous zone in the sky, caused by the light of innumerable fixed stars. [A.S. meolc, milk; Ger. milch, milk.]

U.S. National Library of MedicineRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Milk

   The white liquid secreted by the mammary glands. It contains proteins, sugar, lipids, vitamins, and minerals.

CrunchBaseRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Milk

   Milk is a mobile development lab founded by Kevin Rose, Jeff Hodsdon, and Daniel Burka.Milk has announced its first mobile app, Oink, released last fall. The company has since been acquired by Google.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. milk

   A type of white liquid secreted by the mammary gland of a female animal or female human being following birth and for a specific amount of time where required.

   Milk is produced by the mammary gland of an animal or human being for them to provide a form of food for their newborn.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 3, 2020  

2. ---

   milk

   A type of white liquid secreted by a variety of plants.

   Plants like almonds, coconut and soya produce milk.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 3, 2020  

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. MILK

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Milk is ranked #53072 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Milk surname appeared 390 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Milk.
   
   72.8% or 284 total occurrences were White.
   16.9% or 66 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   6.6% or 26 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.5% or 10 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Matched Categories

1. • Montana
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   • Beverage
   • Dairy Product
   • Draw
   • Exploit
   • Liquid Body Substance
   • Nutriment
   • River

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'MILK' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2392

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'MILK' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1159

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'MILK' in Nouns Frequency: #954

How to pronounce MILK?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say MILK in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of MILK in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of MILK in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of MILK in a Sentence

1. Brian Brenberg:

   If you’re at a point where you’re taking pictures of milk on the shelf to prove how good things are, you know things are not good because no one was taking pictures of milk on the shelf three years ago. That was a given in America.

2. Alan Bjerga:

   We see no wide threat to the milk supply.

3. Joshy Jacob:

   The milk stayed good, just like you refrigerated it, in 2012, scientists took that particular frog and wanted to know why is it, why do these frogs keep milk fresh? It turned out that when you shock a frog or when you stimulate them or stress them, they secrete these short peptides into their surroundings.

4. Edward Hartle:

   We have concluded that the exposure came from the process we were using to prepare donor breast milk.

5. Ronald Maughan:

   Adding large amounts carbohydrates or fat [ such as natural sugars in orange juice or the fat in milk ] will slow gastric emptying.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=MILK
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Milk
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=MILK
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/MILK
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=MILK
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=MILK
9. ^ CrunchBase
   https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/milk
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html