What does milk mean?

Definitions for milk
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Princeton's WordNet

  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"

Wiktionary

  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 Dictionary

  1. MILKnoun

    Etymology: meelc , Saxon; melck, Dutch.

    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.

    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.

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

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

Wikipedia

  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.

ChatGPT

  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 Dictionary

  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.]

Wikidata

  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 Dictionary

  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 Medicine

  1. Milk

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

CrunchBase

  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 Contribution

  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 Records

  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.

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

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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. Seraphina Harrell:

    She was so loving. If you looked sad, she would comfort you. If you got even the slightest little poke, she would sign' sorry' and then kiss your boo-boo, when her baby cousin cried, she would sign' Baby, cry, Mama, milk.'.

  2. Lawrence MacAulay:

    What we're trying to do is come to an end result to deal with the diafiltered milk, it is a problem, but hopefully we'll end up with as good or better results in the end.

  3. Peter West:

    We are focusing resources behind our biggest growth opportunities, which are in higher-value categories such as milk based beverages, speciality cheese and yoghurt.

  4. Sarah Keim:

    No, it's quite clear that the risks to your infant's health and safety are significant and appear to outweigh any benefits they might get from breast milk.

  5. Maria Mascaraque:

    With meat it's very clear... you will have a hamburger whenever you are treating yourself, i don't think cow's milk or dairy in general has as bad a reputation as processed meats.

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