Definitions for butter
ˈbʌt ərbut·ter

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. butter(noun)

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

2. butter(verb)

   a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head

3. butter(verb)

   spread butter on

   "butter bread"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. butter(Noun)

   Someone who butts; someone who butts in

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Butter(noun)

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

2. Butter(noun)

   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. Butter(verb)

   to cover or spread with butter

4. Butter(verb)

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

5. Butter(noun)

   one who, or that which, butts

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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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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. boutyron—bous ox, tyros, cheese.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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)

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. butter

   A type of dairy product created and processed in various colors, milk, formula, ingredients, recipes and substances, sold as a product in a form of packaging.

   Butter is sold in blocks, tubs, wrapped in paper and in other forms.

   Submitted by MC Harmonious on November 30, 2016

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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

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. English Proverb:

   Never fall out with your bread and butter.

2. Katherine Cebrian:

   I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking.

3. Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter:

   Product sales are Amazon's bread, but AWS is its butter.

4. Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures (regarding popcorn):

   If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.

5. Terry Reilly:

   China basically in some respects is an exporter's bread and butter.

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