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Cream
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- 1 Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour. not-comparable
- 1 The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder. countable, uncountable
"Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar…"
- 2 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 wordnet
- 3 The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.; The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat. US, countable, uncountable
"You may have noticed that any time that filling is mentioned on Oreo packaging, it's called "creme." This is no typo. Technically, the creamy filling inside an Oreo is not cream at all: The recipe used actually contains no dairy; as such, the FDA prohibits Nabisco from labeling the product as "cream.""
- 4 the part of milk containing the butterfat wordnet
- 5 The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.; The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream). UK, countable, uncountable
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- 6 the best people or things in a group wordnet
- 7 The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.; A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer. countable, uncountable
"I take my coffee with two cream and three sugar."
- 8 A yellowish white color; the color of cream. countable, uncountable
"Hundreds of examples remain, still following the same general pattern—maroon, green or chocolate brown, for example, from ground to waist level, then a stale Cheddar cheese shade of cream above."
- 9 Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream. countable, informal, uncountable
"Originally the cream filling in Oreo cookies was made with pork lard."
- 10 A dish prepared through creaming, particularly cream of countable, uncountable
- 11 The best part of something. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"the cream of the crop"
- 12 A viscous aqueous oil or fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment) countable, uncountable
"You look really sunburnt; you should apply some cream."
- 13 Semen. countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar
"2001, Darwin Porter, Hollywood’s Silent Closet: The Lusty Saga of America’s First Star F*#%er!! (novel), Blood Moon Productions, Ltd., →ISBN, page 155, He rode me for ten—or was it fifteen?—minutes before one final fuckthrust that filled me completely with his cream."
- 14 The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"there shall never harlot have happe, by the helpe of Oure Lord, to kylle a crowned Kynge that with Creyme is anoynted."
- 1 To puree, to blend with a liquifying process. transitive
"Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture."
- 2 add cream to one's coffee, for example wordnet
- 3 To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream. transitive
- 4 remove from the surface wordnet
- 5 To obliterate, to defeat decisively. slang, transitive
"We creamed the opposing team!"
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- 6 put on cream, as on one's face or body wordnet
- 7 To ejaculate (used of either gender). intransitive, slang, vulgar
"Danny Zuko: You are supreme / The chicks’ll cream / For grease lightning."
- 8 beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight wordnet
- 9 To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice). slang, transitive, vulgar
- 10 make creamy by beating wordnet
- 11 To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency. transitive
- 12 To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream. transitive
- 13 To take off the best or choicest part of. figuratively, transitive
- 14 To furnish with, or as if with, cream. transitive
"Please cream these two coffees and leave the others black."
- 15 To gather or form cream. intransitive
Etymology
From Middle English creime, creme, from Old French creme, cresme, blend of Late Latin chrisma (“ointment”) (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma, “unguent”)), and Late Latin crāmum (“cream”), from Gaulish *crama (compare Welsh cramen (“scab, skin”), Breton crammen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krama- (compare Middle Irish screm (“surface, skin”), Dutch schram (“abrasion”), Lithuanian kramas (“scurf”)). Doublet of crema and crème. Displaced native Old English rēam (“cream”) (> modern ream). Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" appears from 1581. Verb meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. The U.S. standard of identity is from 21 CFR 131.3(a).
From Middle English creime, creme, from Old French creme, cresme, blend of Late Latin chrisma (“ointment”) (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma, “unguent”)), and Late Latin crāmum (“cream”), from Gaulish *crama (compare Welsh cramen (“scab, skin”), Breton crammen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krama- (compare Middle Irish screm (“surface, skin”), Dutch schram (“abrasion”), Lithuanian kramas (“scurf”)). Doublet of crema and crème. Displaced native Old English rēam (“cream”) (> modern ream). Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" appears from 1581. Verb meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. The U.S. standard of identity is from 21 CFR 131.3(a).
From Middle English creime, creme, from Old French creme, cresme, blend of Late Latin chrisma (“ointment”) (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma, “unguent”)), and Late Latin crāmum (“cream”), from Gaulish *crama (compare Welsh cramen (“scab, skin”), Breton crammen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krama- (compare Middle Irish screm (“surface, skin”), Dutch schram (“abrasion”), Lithuanian kramas (“scurf”)). Doublet of crema and crème. Displaced native Old English rēam (“cream”) (> modern ream). Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" appears from 1581. Verb meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. The U.S. standard of identity is from 21 CFR 131.3(a).
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