cheese
Forms
- Plural
- cheeses
- present (v1)
- cheese
- past (v2)
- cheesed
- past participle (v3)
- cheesed
- present participle
- cheesing
- 3rd person singular
- cheeses
Definitions
1.A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
2.A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
3.Any particular variety of cheese.
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.
1.To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
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.To prepare curds for making cheese.
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.