cheese
The definition of cheese is a solid food made by pressing curdled milk together and letting it ripen.
(noun)An example of cheese is Monterey Jack.
See cheese in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a food made from the curds of soured milk pressed together to form a solid that is usually allowed to ripen
- a shaped mass of this
- a thing like cheese in shape or consistency
Origin: ME chese < OE cyse < Gmc *kasjus < IE base *kwat-, to ferment, become sour > L caseus, cheese, OE hwatherian, to foam
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noun
Origin: Hindi chīz, a thing < Pers čiz, something
See cheese in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- a. A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk, often seasoned and aged.b. A molded mass of this substance.
- Something resembling this substance in shape or consistency.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English chese
Origin: , from Old English cȳse
Origin: , from Germanic *kasjus
Origin: , from Latin cāseus
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Slang
Origin:
Origin: Perhaps from Urdu chīz, thing
Origin: , from Persian
Origin: , from Old Persian *ciš-ciy, something; see kwo- in Indo-European roots
.See cheese in Ologies
Cheese
See also food and nutrition; milk.
the formation of cheese from casein during the coagulation of milk.
fromology
a knowledge of cheeses.
laclabphily
the collecting of cheese labels.
tyromancy
Obsolete, a form of divination involving observation of cheese, especially as it coagulates.
tyrosemiophily
the collecting of Camembert cheese labels.
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