cheese — ozdic

Collocations

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1

(noun.)

ADJ

QUANT

chunk, crumb, hunk, lump, piece, slice

VERB + CHEESE

eat, have | make

cut, grate, slice

I grated some cheddar cheese over the pasta before serving it to my family.

melt

sprinkle (sth with), top (sth with)

Top your pizza with melted cheese and fresh basil before baking.

CHEESE + NOUN

fondue, omelette, roll, sandwich, sauce, souffle | board | factory

PHRASES

bread and cheese, cheese and biscuits, cheese on toast, a selection of cheeses

Definitions

noun

1

A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.

2

Any particular variety of cheese.

3

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.

4

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

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···”

5

A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese

verb

1

To prepare curds for making cheese.

2

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

3

To smile excessively, as for a camera.

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'

intj

1

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

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

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary cluster

cheeseflower

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

cut the cheese

To fart loudly.

I cannot believe that you cut the cheese at the dinner table!

big cheese

A very important figure, especially a high-ranking person in an organization.

He’ll be meeting with the big cheese first thing tomorrow, to present his proposal.

say cheese

To smile for a photograph by saying the word "cheese" (the vowel of which, when pronounced as is usual in English, forces a somewhat smile-shaped mouth).

Danny watched the birdie and said cheese, and then it was over and the wait began. Danny would wait for weeks in anticipation of the day the final product was passed out by his tea

hard cheese

An unsympathetic retort to someone suffering misfortune.

chalk and cheese

Said of things that are very different, though possibly superficially alike.

Example Bank

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He had a gloating expression on his face, and was perseveringly rolling a large cheese along the middle of the road.

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02

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 th

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03

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 ...

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04

Yeah, a couple homegirls cheese they little faces off / They happy cause they finally got they braces off

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05

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 wo

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06

Now Kunihiko sprinted back up the stairs. Exploded through the bar with three sacks of convenience store chicken, cheesing from ear to ear.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, cheese is marked as slang, dated, UK, British. Watch for register when choosing this word.