cheese
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Is cheese a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.uncountable
2. (countable) Any particular variety of cheese.countable
3. (countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.Examples: "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."countable
4. (uncountable, UK) A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)Examples: "1807, Nutt, F. (1807). The Complete Confectioner: Or, The Whole Art of Confectionary Made Easy: Containing, Among a Variety of Useful Matter, the Art of Making the Various Kinds of Biscuits, Drops ... as Also the Most Approved Method of Making Cheeses, Puddings, Cakes &c. in 250 Cheap and Fashionable Receipts. The Result of Many Years Experience with the Celebrated Negri and Witten. United Kingdom: reprinted, for Richard Scott and sold at his bookstore, no. 243 Pearl-street. p.82-3, No.244. Damson Cheese: “Pick the damsons free from stalks···You may make plum or bullace cheese in the same way···”"UKuncountable
5. (uncountable, colloquial) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.Examples: "It's time to add some cheese to this action burger! Every genre has them, everybody loves them ... it's the parodies!"; "A film ostensibly about the lead singer of a hair metal band killing innocent people on a future planet Earth, Alienator is the epitome of low-budget cheese."colloquialuncountable
6. (uncountable, slang) Money.slanguncountable
verb (English)
1. (technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
2. (slang) To smile excessively, as for a camera.Examples: "Yeah, a couple homegirls cheese they little faces off / They happy cause they finally got they braces off"; "It's been a long time since you fell in love / You ain't coming out your shell, you ain't really been yourself / Tell me, what must I do? (Do tell, my love) / 'Cause luckily I'm good at reading / I wouldn't bug him, but he won't stop cheesin'"; "Now Kunihiko sprinted back up the stairs. Exploded through the bar with three sacks of convenience store chicken, cheesing from ear to ear."slang
intj (English)
1. (photography) Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.Examples: "Say "cheese"! ... and there we are!"
noun (English)
1. (slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.slanguncountable
2. (slang, dated, British India) The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket.Examples: "These cheroots are the real cheese."BritishIndiadatedslanguncountable
verb (English)
1. (slang) To stop; to refrain from.Examples: "Cheese it! The cops!"; "Cheese your patter! (= stop talking, shut up)"slang
2. (slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".Examples: "All this waiting around is really cheesing me off."slang
noun (English)
1. (gaming) The exploitation, or opportunity for exploitation, of an unintentional video game mechanic.uncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary