cream

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/kɹiːm/

noun 5verb 5adj 1

Collocations

(noun.) fatty part of milk

ADJ

clotted, thick, whipped | double, single | fresh | sour/soured | pouring, whipping

QUANT

dollop

A generous dollop of cream made the dessert even more delicious.

VERB + CREAM

beat, whip, whisk

Beat the cream until it becomes thick and fluffy for the dessert.

fill sth with, serve sth with, top sth with

The baker topped the chocolate cake with fresh cream and berries.

CREAM + VERB

go off

The milk and cream went off before we could use them for the dessert.

CREAM + NOUN

bun, cake, cheese, sauce | tea

PHRASES

and/with cream

The chef topped the fresh berries with thick cream and a sprinkle of sugar.

(noun.) substance that you rub into your skin

ADJ

face, hand

day, night

After her shower, she applied day cream to keep her skin protected from the sun.

antiseptic, barrier, cleansing, shaving, sun

VERB + CREAM

apply, massage, put on

She massaged the moisturizing cream into her face before going to bed.

Definitions

noun

The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.

Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar…

The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.

You may have noticed that any time that filling is mentioned on Oreo packaging, it's called "creme." This is no typo. Technically, the creamy filling inside an Oreo is not cream at all: The recipe used actually contains no dairy; as such, the FDA prohibits Nabisco from labeling the product as "cream."

The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.

I take my coffee with two cream and three sugar.

A yellowish white color; the color of cream.

Hundreds of examples remain, still following the same general pattern—maroon, green or chocolate brown, for example, from ground to waist level, then a stale Cheddar cheese shade of cream above.

adj

Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.

verb

To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.

Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.

To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream.

To obliterate, to defeat decisively.

We creamed the opposing team!

To ejaculate (used of either gender).

Danny Zuko: You are supreme / The chicks’ll cream / For grease lightning.

To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form

noun — the best people or things in a group

pick

verb — remove from the surface

skim

verb — beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

cream of the crop

The best or most desirable among some selection.

They hoped to hire only the cream of the crop for the new project team.

peaches and cream

A very enjoyable experience, usually used to describe something being unrealistically idyllic.

Those Incarnations — they've got real jobs to do! It isn't all peaches and cream for them, any more than for us!

cream in one's jeans

To ejaculate while wearing one's trousers; to experience an orgasm while clothed.

And you always cream in your jeans when your neck breaks. It has something to do with the pressure on the spinal cord being transmitted through the prostate.

cream in one's coffee

Something that one relishes.

You're the cream in my coffee. You're the salt in my stew. You will always be my necessity. I'd be lost without you.

cream the crop

To pick out the most valuable or desirable things or people from a group for one's own interests.

In the past, most agencies assumed that the other agencies were “creaming the crop,” training (or placing) the easiest or most docile or best-educated clients, manipulating data (o

Example Bank

Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar…

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I take my coffee with two cream and three sugar.

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Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.

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We creamed the opposing team!

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Danny Zuko: You are supreme / The chicks’ll cream / For grease lightning.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, cream is marked as slang, vulgar, US, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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