cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chēz
ipa: /t͡ʃiːz/
ipa: /t͡ʃiz/
rhymes: -iːz
homophone: qis
Forms: form: cheeses
form: cheesen
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 ċēse, from Proto-West Germanic *kāsī, borrowed from Latin cāseus. Doublet of queso.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Síes (“cheese”), West Frisian tsiis (“cheese”), Dutch kaas (“cheese”), German Low German Kees (“cheese”), German Käse (“cheese”).
Senses: glosses: A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
glosses: Any particular variety of cheese.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2015 August 23, Dominik Guggisberg et al., “Mechanism and control of the eye formation in cheese”, in International Dairy Journal, volume 47, Elsevier, →DOI, pages 118–127:
glosses: A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
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···”
glosses: A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
glosses: A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
examples: text: It's time to add some cheese to this action burger! Every genre has them, everybody loves them ... it's the parodies!
ref: 2012, Katrina Hill, Action Movie Freak, page 117:
text: 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.
ref: 2012 June 18, Ryan Lambie, “10 delightfully cheesy 90s sci-fi movie trailers”, in Den of Geek!, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2017:
glosses: That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
glosses: Money.
glosses: In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fastball.
glosses: A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
glosses: Smegma.
examples: 2006, US Patent 7458053, International Business Machines Corporation
It is known in the art to insert features that are electrically inactive (“fill structures”) into a layout to increase layout pattern density or and to remove features from the layout (“cheese structures”) to decrease layout pattern density.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
examples: text: Apple pulp is poured into the cloth until the frame is full. The edges of the cloth are folded over the pulp forming a cloth-bound bed of apple pulp, called a 'cheese' as it resembles the European-style bound cheese. The frame is removed, a divider is placed on the 'cheese' and another 'cheese' is built on top of the first, and so on.
ref: 2011, P. Rutledge, “Production of Non-Fermented Fruit Products”, in D. Arthey, P.R. Ashurst, editors, Fruit Processing, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
glosses: The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).
examples: text: The time was morning; the young lady was not fifteen; her spirits were as the spirits of a fawn in May; her tour of duty for the day was either not come, or was gone; and, finding herself alone in a spacious room, what more reasonable thing could she do than amuse herself with making cheeses? that is, whirling round, according to a fashion practised by young ladies both in France and England, and pirouetting until the petticoat is inflated like a balloon, and then sinking into a courtesy.
ref: 1853, Thomas De Quincey, “I Enter the World”, in Autobiographic Sketches:
text: "I thank your ladyship, I don't like tanzing, and I don't like cards," says Miss Hester, tossing up her head; and, dropping a curtsey like a "cheese," she strutted away from the Countess's table.
ref: 1857, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 34, in The Virginians:
text: Mrs. Curzon-Bowlby, thus deserted in the middle of the room, dropped the prettiest of "cheeses," and broke into a merry peal of unaffected laughter.
ref: 1897, Stanley John Weyman, “The Deanery Ball”, in For the Cause:
glosses: A low curtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.
Synonyms: topics: money
finance
business
word: money
word: cheese
word: fromage
Hypernyms: word: dairy product
word: food
Hyponyms: word: camembert
word: cheddar
word: Emmentaler
word: feta
word: mozzarella
word: parmesan
word: Swiss cheese
Derived terms: Abertam cheese
aerosol cheese
a little bit of bread and no cheese
American cheese
Añejo cheese
apple-cheese
apple cheese
Asiago cheese
basket cheese
beer cheese
bleu cheese
blue cheese
Bonchester cheese
bread-and-cheese
bread and cheese
bread cheese
brick cheese
brined cheese
brown cheese
Brussels' cheese
Buxton Blue cheese
Cabrales cheese
Caerphilly cheese
Caithness cheese
Camembert cheese
canned cheese
cauliflower cheese
chaffle
chalk and cheese
chalk for cheese
Chanco cheese
Chaumes cheese
Cheddar cheese
cheesable
cheese and bread
cheese and rice
cheese antenna
cheese-bail
cheese ball
cheeseball
cheese-board
cheese board
cheeseboard
cheese-borer
cheese-bowl
cheese-box
cheese box
cheesebox
cheese-bug
cheeseburger
cheese bus
cheese button
cheesecake
cheese-cement
cheese cloth
cheesecloth
cheese-clout
cheese coney
cheese-cratch
cheese-crate
cheese crisp
cheese crystal
cheese curds
cheese curl
cheesecutter
cheese cutter
cheese-cutter
cheesed
cheesedick
cheese dip
cheese dish
cheesed off
cheese dog
cheese doodle
cheese down
cheese dream
cheese eater
cheese-eater
cheese eating
cheese-eating
cheese-eating surrender monkey
cheese-eating surrender monkeys
Cheesefare
cheesefest
cheese fingers
cheese fly
cheese food
cheese fries
cheese grater
cheese-hake
cheesehamburger
cheese-head
cheesehead
cheese-headed
cheese-heck
cheese-hoop
cheesehopper
cheese-hopper
cheese in a can
cheese kettle
cheese knife
cheese-knife
cheese ladder
cheeselep
cheeseless
cheeselicious
cheeselike
cheeseling
cheese-maggot
cheesemaker
cheesemaking
cheeseman
cheesemeister
cheese mite
cheese-moat
cheese-mold
cheesemonger
cheese monkey
cheese-mould
cheesen
cheese off
cheese on toast
cheese out
cheese-pale
cheese paper
cheesepare
cheese-parer
cheese-paring
cheeseparing
cheese pizza
cheese-plate
cheese powder
cheese-press
cheese puff
cheese pull
cheeser
cheese-rack
cheese rack
cheese-ramekin
cheese rennet
cheese-rennet
cheese roll
cheese rolling
cheese-room
cheese-running
cheesery
cheese sauce
cheese-scoop
cheese scoop
cheese single
cheese skipper
cheese slaw
cheese slicer
cheese spread
cheesesteak
cheese stick
cheese straw
cheese syndrome
cheese-taster
cheesetastic
cheese tax
cheese tea
cheese-toaster
cheese toastie
cheese trier
cheese-tub
cheesevat
cheese-vat
cheeseware
cheese-water
cheeseweed
Cheese Week
cheesewich
cheese wiener
cheese wire
cheesewire
cheese with that whine
cheese with your wine
cheesewoman
cheesewood
cheesewright
cheese-wring
cheesine
cheesing
cheesology
cheesy
cheesymite scroll
cheeze
Cheshire cheese
chessel
Cheswick
Chevington cheese
chèvre cheese
Chihuahua cheese
chili cheese
chips and cheese
Chiswick
cock-cheese
cock cheese
Colby cheese
Colby-Jack cheese
Coon cheese
corn cheese
Cornish Yarg cheese
cotija cheese
cottage cheese
cottage cheese ass
Cougar Gold cheese
cream-cheese
cream cheese
Creole cream cheese
Criollo cheese
Cuba cheese
cup cheese
curd cheese
cut the cheese
damson-cheese
damson cheese
Danish Blue cheese
Derby cheese
dickcheese
dick-cheese
dick cheese
Dorset Blue Vinney cheese
Dorstone cheese
Double Gloucester cheese
Dovedale cheese
Duberry cheese
Dunlop cheese
Dutch cheese
Easy Cheese
Edam cheese
Emmental cheese
Emmenthal cheese
Eurocheese
Exmoor Blue cheese
farmer cheese
farmer's cheese
feta cheese
Feta cheese
fetta cheese
Fetta cheese
filled cheese
fresh cheese
frog cheese
fromunda cheese
Gloucester cheese
goat cheese
goat's cheese
goat's milk cheese
goat's-milk cheese
Gouda cheese
government cheese
granular cheese
grated cheese
green cheese
grilled cheese
groaning cheese
Gruyère cheese
hard cheese
head cheese
head-cheese
headcheese
hoop cheese
Horeb cheese
human cheese
Huntsman cheese
Idiazabal cheese
Ilchester cheese
jack cheese
Jack cheese
jalapeño cheese
Jarlsberg cheese
Keswick
knob cheese
Lancashire cheese
Leicester cheese
Leidse cheese
lemon cheese
Leyden cheese
Liederkranz cheese
like cheese at fourpence
Limburg cheese
Limburger cheese
Lincolnshire Poacher cheese
Lymeswold cheese
mac and cheese
macaroni-and-cheese
macaroni and cheese
macaroni cheese
mac'n cheese
mac 'n' cheese
maggot cheese
make butter and cheese of
make cheeses
make the cheese more binding
Manchego cheese
marble cheese
Maytag Blue cheese
mite cheese
monastery cheese
mountain cheese
mousetrap cheese
mozzarella cheese
Muenster cheese
Munster cheese
Münster cheese
Nabulsi cheese
nacho cheese
Neufchâtel cheese
nipcheese
Nökkelost cheese
noncheese
Oaxaca cheese
Oka cheese
Olomouc cheese
Parmesan cheese
pepper jack cheese
pickcheese
pick-cheese
pimento cheese
Pinconning cheese
pizza cheese
plastic cheese
pork cheese
pot cheese
processed cheese
Provel cheese
pub cheese
quince cheese
rat cheese
rat-trap cheese
Red Leicester cheese
Red Windsor cheese
rennet cheese
ricotta cheese
romano cheese
ruen cheese
sage-cheese
Sage Derby cheese
Saint-André cheese
Sakura cheese
Šar cheese
say cheese
Shropshire Blue cheese
Single Gloucester cheese
slip cheese
smoked cheese
soft cheese
sour milk cheese
soycheese
spray cheese
squeaky cheese
Stilton cheese
Stinking Bishop cheese
stirred curd cheese
stirred-curd cheese
store cheese
string cheese
suck cheese
Swaledale cheese
Swiss cheese
Swiss cheese plant
tasty cheese
Testouri cheese
Teviotdale cheese
the Cheeses
the second mouse gets the cheese
Tilsit cheese
Tilsiter cheese
tip-cheese
toad-cheese
toad's cheese
toasted cheese
toe cheese
Trappist cheese
Tyrolean grey cheese
unripened cheese
Valdeón cheese
Västerbotten cheese
Waterloo cheese
Wensleydale cheese
white cheese polypore
White Stilton cheese
Yankee cheese
Yankee cheese-box
yoghurt cheese
Yunnan cheese
Zamorano cheese
Related terms: word: butter
word: cream
word: milk
word: turophile
word: yogurt
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