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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024cheese1 /tʃiz/USA pronunciation n. - Fooda food prepared from the curds of milk separated from the whey: [uncountable]Cheese sometimes has a strong smell.[countable]several good cheeses from France.
- Food a mass of this substance:[countable]a huge cheese in the shop.
cheese3 /tʃiz/USA pronunciation n. [countable* usually: big + ~][Slang.]- Slang Termsan important or powerful person:He's the big cheese of the operation in South America.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cheese1 (chēz),USA pronunciation n., v., cheesed, chees•ing. n. - Foodthe curd of milk separated from the whey and prepared in many ways as a food.
- Fooda definite mass of this substance, often in the shape of a wheel or cylinder.
- something of similar shape or consistency, as a mass of pomace in cider-making.
- Informal Termspartly digested milk curds sometimes spit up by infants.
- Plant Biology cheeses, any of several mallows, esp. Malva neglecta, a sprawling,weedy plant having small lavender or white flowers and round, flat, segmented fruits thought to resemble little wheels of cheese.
- Slang Terms(vulgar). smegma.
- [Metalworking.]
- Metallurgya transverse section cut from an ingot, as for making into a tire.
- Metallurgyan ingot or billet made into a convex, circular form by blows at the ends.
- a low curtsy.
v.i. - Informal Terms(of infants) to spit up partly digested milk curds.
v.t. - Metallurgyto forge (an ingot or billet) into a cheese.
- Latin cāseus
- Middle English chese, Old English cēse (cognate with Old Saxon kāsi, German Käse) bef. 1000
- Slang Termsto stop;
desist.
interj. - Idioms cheese it:
- perh. alteration of cease 1805–15
- Slang Termsa person or thing that is important or splendid.
- Persian
- Urdu chīz thing
- perh. 1905–10
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: cheese /tʃiːz/ n - the curd of milk separated from the whey and variously prepared as a food
- a mass or complete cake of this substance
- any of various substances of similar consistency, etc: lemon cheese
- big cheese ⇒ slang an important person
Etymology: Old English cēse, from Latin cāseus cheese; related to Old Saxon kāsi |