What does butter mean?

Definitions for butter
ˈbʌt ərbut·ter

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. butternoun

    an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use

  2. butterverb

    a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head

  3. butterverb

    spread butter on

    "butter bread"

Wiktionary

  1. butternoun

    Someone who butts; someone who butts in

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. BUTTERnoun

    Etymology: buttere, Sax. butyrum, Lat.

    And he took butter and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set before them. Gen. xviii. 8.

  2. To Butterverb

    Etymology: from the noun.

    ’Twas her brother, that, in pure kindness to his horse, buttered his hay. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

    Words butter no parsnips. Roger L'Estrange.

    It is a fine simile in one of Mr. Congreve’s prologues, which compares a writer to a buttering gamester, that stakes all his winning upon one cast; so that if he loses the last throw, he is sure to be undone. Joseph Addison, Freeholder, №. 40.

Wikipedia

  1. Butter

    Butter is a dairy product made from the fat and protein components of churned cream. It is a semi-solid emulsion at room temperature, consisting of approximately 80% butterfat. It is used at room temperature as a spread, melted as a condiment, and used as an ingredient in baking, sauce making, pan frying, and other cooking procedures. Most frequently made from cow's milk, butter can also be manufactured from the milk of other mammals, including sheep, goats, buffalo, and yaks. It is made by churning milk or cream to separate the fat globules from the buttermilk. Salt and food colorings are sometimes added to butter. Rendering butter, removing the water and milk solids, produces clarified butter or ghee, which is almost entirely butterfat. Butter is a water-in-oil emulsion resulting from an inversion of the cream, where the milk proteins are the emulsifiers. Butter remains a firm solid when refrigerated, but softens to a spreadable consistency at room temperature, and melts to a thin liquid consistency at 32 to 35 °C (90 to 95 °F). The density of butter is 911 grams per litre (0.950 lb per US pint). It generally has a pale yellow color, but varies from deep yellow to nearly white. Its natural, unmodified color is dependent on the source animal's feed and genetics, but the commercial manufacturing process commonly manipulates the color with food colorings like annatto or carotene.

ChatGPT

  1. butter

    Butter is a dairy product typically made from cow's milk, but can also derive from the milk of other mammals like sheep, goats, or buffaloes. It is made by churning or agitating the milk or cream until the fats separate from the liquid and form into a semi-solid state. It is commonly used as a spread, in cooking, or for baking, adding flavor and richness to dishes.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Butternoun

    an oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning

  2. Butternoun

    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. Butterverb

    to cover or spread with butter

  4. Butterverb

    to increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game

  5. Butternoun

    one who, or that which, butts

Wikidata

  1. Butter

    Butter is a dairy product made by churning fresh or fermented cream or milk. It is generally used as a spread and a condiment, as well as in cooking, such as baking, sauce making, and pan frying. Butter consists of butterfat, milk proteins and water. Most frequently made from cows' milk, butter can also be manufactured from the milk of other mammals, including sheep, goats, buffalo, and yaks. Salt, flavorings and preservatives are sometimes added to butter. Rendering butter produces clarified butter or ghee, which is almost entirely butterfat. Butter is a water-in-oil emulsion resulting from an inversion of the cream, an oil-in-water emulsion; the milk proteins are the emulsifiers. Butter remains a solid when refrigerated, but softens to a spreadable consistency at room temperature, and melts to a thin liquid consistency at 32–35 °C. The density of butter is 911 g/L. It generally has a pale yellow color, but varies from deep yellow to nearly white. Its unmodified color is dependent on the animals' feed and is commonly manipulated with food colorings in the commercial manufacturing process, most commonly annatto or carotene.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Butter

    but′ėr, n. an oily substance obtained from cream by churning.—v.t. to spread over with butter.—ns. Butt′er-bird, the name in Jamaica for the rice-bunting; Butt′er-boat, a table vessel for holding melted butter; Butt′er-bump, a bittern; Butt′er-bur, -dock, the sweet coltsfoot; Butt′ercup, a plant of the Crowfoot genus, with a cup-like flower of a golden yellow; Butt′er-fing′ers, one who lets a cricket-ball he ought to catch slip through his fingers; Butt′er-fish (see Gunnel); Butt′erfly, the name of an extensive group of beautiful winged insects: (fig.) a light-headed person.—adj. light, flighty, like a butterfly.—ns. Butt′erine, an artificial fatty compound sold as a substitute for butter—since 1887 only allowed to be sold under the names margarine or oleo-margarine; Butt′er-milk, the milk that remains after the butter has been separated from the cream by churning; Butt′er-nut, the oily nut of the North American white walnut, the tree itself or its light-coloured close-grained wood: the nut of a lofty timber-tree of Guiana—the souari-nut; Butt′er-scotch, a kind of toffee containing a large admixture of butter; Butt′er-tree, a genus of plants found in the East Indies and in Africa, remarkable for a sweet buttery substance yielded by their seeds when boiled; Butt′er-wife, Butt′er-wom′an, a woman who makes and sells butter; Butt′er-wort, a genus of small plants found in marshy places, so called either from the power of the leaves to coagulate milk, or from their peculiar sliminess.—adj. Butt′ery, like butter. [A.S. butere; Ger. butter; both from L. butyrum—Gr. boutyronbous ox, tyros, cheese.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  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)

Rap Dictionary

  1. butteradjective

    Well liked, smoothed out. "Phife Dog is on the mic and I'm smooth like butter. It's like butter, not no Parkay, not no margerine, strictly butter, baby" -- A Tribe Called Quest (Butter). "The women like me, im dipped in butter"- Mac Dre

  2. butteradjective

    Easy or not difficult.

  3. butternoun

    Crack rocks, "Yea I got those butters dawg" Something you put on toast, akin to spread This can reference a fine women with an ugly face. "She fine everywhere BUTT-ER-FACE!" "butters" nice, long wavy hair. ex: "damn that nigga got butters (buddas)."

Editors Contribution

  1. butter

    A type of food and dairy product.

    Butter is sold in various forms.


    Submitted by MaryC on November 30, 2016  

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. BUTTER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Butter is ranked #39164 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Butter surname appeared 562 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Butter.

    72.9% or 410 total occurrences were White.
    10.1% or 57 total occurrences were Black.
    8.9% or 50 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    6.2% or 35 total occurrences were Asian.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'butter' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4675

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'butter' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2415

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'butter' in Nouns Frequency: #1775

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of butter in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of butter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of butter in a Sentence

  1. Rima Kleiner:

    If you only eat a lobster bisque at restaurants, I encourage you to try this recipe. It's very simple, straightforward and puts your Instant Pot to good use, plus, I used less half-and-half than most recipes call for, swapped the olive oil for butter and relied on a lot of herbs and seasonings to add rich flavor. And it's so flavorful, you'll be the only one who knows this bisque is lightened up and nutrient-rich.

  2. Thomas Shapiro:

    If somebody goes in and makes a point to order butter for the bagel … they don’t want margarine or some other kind of chemical substitute.

  3. Josh Novell:

    We're really pleased to be back, these months are our bread and butter. The sun was out over the Easter weekend and normally we would be jumping up and down excited about that.

  4. Scott Sicherer:

    It's what a lot of families call trying to be' bite safe.' it's not that you're curing the allergy ; it's not that you're going to be able to eat peanut butter sandwiches, it's really just to have a better threshold so that if you accidentally ate something that had a little bit of peanut in it, maybe you wouldn't have a reaction or the reaction wouldn't be so bad.

  5. Sandra Arevalo:

    Start by making sure that your child always eats something before going to school, quick and nutrient rich foods to eat in the morning include whole grain cereals with low fat milk, a yogurt parfait, a cereal bar with a cup of low-fat milk, a fruit and/or vegetables smoothie, egg, cheese or turkey sandwich or a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on whole wheat bread.

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