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milk

[ milk ]

noun

  1. an opaque white or bluish-white liquid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals, serving for the nourishment of their young.
  2. this liquid as secreted by cows, goats, or certain other animals and used by humans for food or as a source of butter, cheeses, yogurt, etc.
  3. a glass, carton, etc., of cow's milk:

    We ordered two milks for the children.

  4. any liquid resembling the milk of animals, as the liquid within a coconut, the juice or sap of certain plants, or various pharmaceutical or cosmetic preparations: a gentle cleansing milk for your skin.

    the milk of the rubber tree;

    a gentle cleansing milk for your skin.

  5. a whitish, potable liquid made of ground nuts, legumes, seeds, or grain blended with water and often a sweetener, used especially as a substitute for dairy milk, its main ingredient as specified: almond milk; rice milk.

    nut milks;

    almond milk;

    oat milk;

    rice milk.



verb (used with object)

  1. to press or draw milk from the udder or breast of.
  2. to get something from, especially in a way that exploits or defrauds:

    The swindler milked her of all her savings.

  3. to elicit or draw out a response from someone: The interview was an attempt to milk some sympathy out of what should have been a private tragedy.

    He knows how to milk an audience for laughs.

    The interview was an attempt to milk some sympathy out of what should have been a private tragedy.

  4. to extract with effort as if by milking; squeeze:

    He always has to milk the last bit of toothpaste from the tube.

    She tried to milk a few more billable hours out of the contract.

verb (used without object)

  1. to yield milk, as a cow:

    We called the vet when two of our Holsteins suddenly stopped milking.

  2. to milk a cow or other mammal.

milk

/ 尘瑟濒办 /

noun

    1. a whitish nutritious fluid produced and secreted by the mammary glands of mature female mammals and used for feeding their young until weaned
    2. the milk of cows, goats, or other animals used by man as a food or in the production of butter, cheese, etc lacteallactic
  1. any similar fluid in plants, such as the juice of a coconut
  2. any of various milklike pharmaceutical preparations, such as milk of magnesia
  3. cry over spilt milk
    to lament something that cannot be altered
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to draw milk from the udder of (a cow, goat, or other animal)
  2. intr (of cows, goats, or other animals) to yield milk
  3. tr to draw off or tap in small quantities

    to milk the petty cash

  4. tr to extract as much money, help, etc, as possible from

    to milk a situation of its news value

  5. tr to extract venom, sap, etc, from
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

milk

  1. A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young beginning immediately after birth. Milk is an emulsion of proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and sugars, especially lactose, in water. The proteins in milk contain all the essential amino acids.
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 尘颈濒办路濒别蝉蝉 adjective
  • 辞路惫别谤路尘颈濒办 verb
  • 耻苍路尘颈濒办别诲 adjective
  • well-milked adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of milk1

First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English meol(o)ic, (Anglian) milc; cognate with German Milch, Old Norse 尘箩艒濒办, Gothic miluks; akin to Latin 尘耻濒驳脓谤别, Greek 补尘茅濒驳别颈苍 鈥渢o milk鈥
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of milk1

Old English milc; compare Old Saxon miluk, Old High German miluh, Old Norse mjolk
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. cry over spilled / spilt milk, to lament what cannot be changed or corrected; express sorrow for past actions or events:

    Crying over spilled milk will do you no good now.

More idioms and phrases containing milk

In addition to the idiom beginning with milk , also see cry over spilt milk .
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Example Sentences

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"And what we're seeing through bulk milk surveillance is that actually, spillover is happening. Whenever you have these pulses in H5N1 activity in wildlife, it's spilling over into cattle."

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Pollock cheekily pulling the sock of Wales prop Gareth Thomas to milk a penalty gained social media traction during the Six Nations.

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So I usually make matcha at home with unsweetened almond milk, and I add cinnamon and usually use a little bit of vanilla protein shake as creamer in it.

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"I'll put 拢20 away and then my son will need new school shoes or we'll need food, milk, butter or whatever so we have to dip into that. It's just impossible."

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Promoting infant milk substitutes or feeding bottles to pregnant women or mothers can lead to up to three years in jail or a 5,000-rupee fine.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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