| 单词 | cream |
| 释义 | cream (once / 233 pages) 1nv 2nv 3n 4v 5v Cream is the part of milk that's especially rich, creamy, and fatty. Many people like to add cream to their coffee. Heavy cream can be whipped until it's thick, and light cream might be added to a soup or sauce to add richness. Another kind of cream is a thick lotion, like a skin cream or a night cream. When you cream ingredients together, you mix them until they're fluffy. Calling someone "the cream of the crop," means they're the very best at what they do, and when you cream someone in a game of tennis, you win easily. WORD FAMILYcream: cream-colored, creamed, creamer, creamery, creaming, creams, creamy+/creamer: creamers/creamery: creameries/creamy: creamier, creamiest, creamily, creaminess, creamy-colored USAGE EXAMPLESSome poor families spend large sums on expensive creams to fight the disease. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The extra height of the lid accommodates whipped cream or cappuccino foam, and its inner ring reduces “dribble at the rim,” the company’s website says. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) This crunchy boat of a potato was fried to a crisp and then topped with sour cream and some veggies like radishes and broccoli dust. The New Yorker(Dec 30, 2016) 1 1n the part of milk containing the butterfat Hypo|Hyper Devonshire cream, clotted cream thick cream made from scalded milk double creme, heavy whipping creamcream with a fat content of 48% or more heavy creamcontains more than 36% butterfat coffee cream, light cream, single creamcream that has at least 18% butterfat sour cream, soured creamartificially soured light cream light whipping cream, whipping creamcream that has enough butterfat (30% to 36%) to be whipped dairy product milk and butter and cheese 2v add cream to one's coffee, for example Hyper modify make less severe or harsh or extreme 3v remove from the surface 2skim cream from the surface of milk Syn|Hyper cream off, skim, skim off remove, take, take away, withdraw remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract 1n toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin Syn|Hypo|Hyper emollient, ointment cold cream, coldcream, face cream, vanishing cream a cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skin hand creammoisturizing cream for the hands lanolinan emollient containing wool fat (a fatty substance obtained from the wool of sheep) nard, spikenardan aromatic ointment used in antiquity sun blocker, sunblock, sunscreena cream spread on the skin; contains a chemical (as PABA) to filter out ultraviolet light and so protect from sunburn toilet articles, toiletry artifacts used in making your toilet (washing and taking care of your body) 2v put on cream, as on one's face or body 3She creams her face every night Hyper apply, put on apply to a surface n the best people or things in a group 4the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War Syn|Hyper pick elite, elite group a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status v make creamy by beating 5Cream the butter Hyper beat, scramble stir vigorously v beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight Syn|Hyper bat, clobber, drub, lick, thrash flail, lam, thrash, thresh give a thrashing to; beat hard beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish come out better in a competition, race, or conflict |
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