Cheese

/t͡ʃiːz/ intj, name, noun, verb, slang

intj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Very common ·Middle school level

Meaning at a glance

  • Primary sense: A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
  • Grammar: cheese is listed as intj, name, noun, verb, slang.
  • Nearest alternatives: aettekees, alentejo, alise sainte reine, american cheese.
  • Useful contrasts: debt, fill, frown.
  • Usage evidence: Cheese is a solid food made from the milk of cows, goats, sheep, and other mammals.

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk. uncountable
  2. 2
    Wealth, fame, excellence, importance. slang, uncountable
  3. 3
    The exploitation, or opportunity for exploitation, of an unintentional video game mechanic. uncountable
  4. 4
    a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk wordnet
  5. 5
    Any particular variety of cheese. countable
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  1. 6
    The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket. British, India, dated, slang, uncountable

    "These cheroots are the real cheese."

  2. 7
    erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States wordnet
  3. 8
    A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture. countable

    "He had a gloating expression on his face, and was perseveringly rolling a large cheese along the middle of the road."

  4. 9
    A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly) UK, uncountable

    "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···”"

  5. 10
    A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese countable, uncountable
  6. 11
    That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy. colloquial, uncountable

    "It's time to add some cheese to this action burger! Every genre has them, everybody loves them ... it's the parodies!"

  7. 12
    Money. slang, uncountable
  8. 13
    In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles. UK, countable
  9. 14
    A fastball. slang, uncountable
  10. 15
    A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted. slang, uncountable
  11. 16
    Smegma. countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar
  12. 17
    Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  13. 18
    A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  14. 19
    The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis). countable, uncountable
  15. 20
    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. countable, uncountable

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    To prepare curds for making cheese.
  2. 2
    To stop; to refrain from. slang

    "Cheese it! The cops!"

  3. 3
    To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.) Internet, ambitransitive

    "You can cheese most of the game using certain exploits."

  4. 4
    wind onto a cheese wordnet
  5. 5
    To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
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  1. 6
    To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off". slang

    "All this waiting around is really cheesing me off."

  2. 7
    To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games). slang
  3. 8
    used in the imperative (get away, or stop it) wordnet
  4. 9
    To smile excessively, as for a camera. slang

    "Yeah, a couple homegirls cheese they little faces off / They happy cause they finally got they braces off"

Intj
  1. 1
    Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.

    "Say "cheese"! ... and there we are!"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Synonyms

All synonyms
aettekeesalentejoalise sainte reineamerican cheeseamouappetitost

Example

"Cheese is a solid food made from the milk of cows, goats, sheep, and other mammals."

Common questions

What does "cheese" mean?

A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.

What is a synonym for "cheese"?

Common synonyms include: aettekees, alentejo, alise sainte reine, american cheese, amou, appetitost.

How do you use "cheese" in a sentence?

Cheese is a solid food made from the milk of cows, goats, sheep, and other mammals.

How do you pronounce "cheese"?

Pronounced /t͡ʃiːz/.

Etymology

Etymology 1

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 ċīese, 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”).

Etymology 2

Perhaps an alteration of cheers.

Etymology 3

Though commonly claimed to be a borrowing of Persian چیز (čiz, “thing”), the term does not occur earliest in Anglo-Indian sources, but instead is "well recorded in British and Australian sources from the 1840s onwards".

Etymology 4

Etymology unknown. Possibly an alteration of cease.

Etymology 5

From cheesy.

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