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milky (mil)

adjective milkier milk′i·er, milkiest milk′i·est

  1. like milk; esp., white as milk or having the consistency of milk
  2. of, containing, or yielding milk
  3. timid, meek, mild, etc.
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milky

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milky Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • sap: The active agents in all of these are either contained within the milky sap or the juice of crushed seeds.
  • precipitate: It reacts with acids - ' fizzing ' due to carbon dioxide formation - test with ' limewater ' - milky white precipitate.
  • latex: They are herbs or small shrubs often containing a milky latex.
  • juice: This Spurge contains a milky juice - which in some foreign species is highly poisonous.
  • drink: A bath, a short walk or a milky drink may help you to relax.
  • coffee: Café au lait spots A type of birthmark which is the color of milky coffee, hence the name.

Modifying Another Word

  • slightly: They are all slightly milky, yet not opaque.
  • very: If you like your coffee very milky - this could be the cocktail for you!
  • quite: Builders ' tea, quite milky, large size.
  • too: The espresso, however, just wasn't strong enough, a bit too milky, and way too hot.
  • uniformly: After resuspension, the fluid must have a uniformly milky appearance.

Used with adjective complement

  • turn: He watched the air over Green Park turn milky then walked home alone.
  • become: Do you see that the water has become quite milky?
  • go: The best scrubber is the one where the limewater takes longest to go milky.
  • appear: May appear milky, like faint lines or streaks, colored or reflective.
  • look: If the liquid looks milky, they are ready.
milky Quotes

‚Robaron los conquistadores una pa¤  gina al Universo! Aquellos eran los pueblos que llamaban a laV|¤a La¤  ctea'el camino de las almas'; para quienes el Universo estaba lleno del Grande Esp|¤ritu, en cuyo seno se encerraba toda luz. The conquistadores stole a page from the Universe! Those were the good people who called the Milky Way 'the souls'path'; for them the Universe was full of the Great Spirit, within which all light was contained.

—Mart|¤  ,Jose¤

  Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler heav'n.

—Pope, Alexander

The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves, The brilliant moon and all the milky sky, And all that famous harmony of leaves, Has blotted out man's image and his cry.

—Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)

Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

—Wordsworth,William

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