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cheese

//t͡ʃiːz//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Interjection

A word or short phrase used to express a sudden emotion or reaction.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Note for cheese

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Forms

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
cheeses

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)
cheese
past (v2)
cheesed
past participle (v3)
cheesed
present participle
cheesing
3rd person singular
cheeses

Definitions

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.

  2. 2.A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)

  3. 3.Any particular variety of cheese.

  4. 4.A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.

    • He had a gloating expression on his face, and was perseveringly rolling a large cheese along the middle of the road.
    • In the tomographic images of the 30-day-old cheeses, the gantry had to be removed with image processing techniques: first, the binarised image (grey level larger than 10⁴) was eroded with a disk of three pixels.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

  1. 1.To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.

  2. 2.To smile excessively, as for a camera.(slang)

    • Now Kunihiko sprinted back up the stairs. Exploded through the bar with three sacks of convenience store chicken, cheesing from ear to ear.
  3. 3.To prepare curds for making cheese.

Interjection

A word or short phrase used to express a sudden emotion or reaction.

  1. 1.Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.

    • Say "cheese"! ... and there we are!

Frequency

Overall

Uncommon· #2250

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Uncommon
Academic
Rare
Literature
Rare

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin cāseusbor.

Proto-Germanic *kāsijaz

Proto-West Germanic *kāsī

Old English ċīese

Middle English chese

English cheese

From Middle English chese, from Anglian Old English ċīese, from Proto-West Germanic *kāsī, borrowed from Latin cāseus. Doublet of queso.

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