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Milk
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- 1 A surname.
"American gay rights activist Harvey Milk was known for keeping his face and name on the front pages of San Francisco’s newspapers."
- 1 A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt. uncountable
"Skyr is a product made of curdled milk."
- 2 produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young wordnet
- 3 A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, or soy beans. broadly, uncountable
"Where it does fall down, however, is its nutritional value. While oats are largely a healthy grain to include in your diet, the milk is highly diluted with water, giving it little nutritional value."
- 4 a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings wordnet
- 5 An individual serving of milk. countable, informal
"Table three ordered three milks."
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- 6 any of several nutritive milklike liquids wordnet
- 7 An individual portion of milk, such as found in a creamer, for tea and coffee. countable, invariable
"I take my tea with two milks and two sugars."
- 8 The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster. countable, uncountable
- 9 Semen. slang, uncountable, vulgar
- 1 To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow). transitive
"The farmer milked his cows."
- 2 take milk from female mammals wordnet
- 3 To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder. intransitive, transitive
"to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows"
- 4 add milk to wordnet
- 5 To secrete (milk) from the breasts or udder. intransitive, rare, transitive
"The black cow milking white milk, black hen on the nest laying white eggs."
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- 6 exploit as much as possible wordnet
- 7 To express a liquid from a creature. transitive
"The Australian government has a team that regularly milks various snakes for venom to use creating serums and antivenoms."
- 8 To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, a source of funds, etc.); to exploit; to take advantage of (something). figuratively, transitive
"When the audience began laughing, the comedian milked the joke for more laughs."
- 9 To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation.
- 10 To masturbate a male to ejaculation, especially for the amusement or satisfaction of the masturbator rather than the person masturbated. transitive, vulgar
"Controlled milking can actually establish and consolidate a mistress’s dominance over her sub rather than diminish it."
Etymology
From Middle English milk, mylk, melk, mulc, from Old English meolc, meoluc (“milk”), from Proto-West Germanic *meluk, from Proto-Germanic *meluks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian molke, Dutch melk, Dutch Low Saxon melk, German Milch, German Low German Melk, Yiddish מילך (milkh), Danish mælk, Norwegian Bokmål mjølk, melk, Norwegian Nynorsk mjølk, Swedish mjölk, Icelandic mjólk, Faroese mjólk, Greek αμέλγω (amélgo, “to milk”), Albanian mjel (“to milk”), Polish mleko, Russian молоко́ (molokó), Welsh blith, Tocharian A malke, Lithuanian malkas and Latvian malks.
From Middle English milken, from Old English melcan, from Proto-Germanic *melkaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-, the same root as the noun. Compare Dutch and German melken, Danish malke, Norwegian mjølke, also Latin mulgeō (“I milk”), Ancient Greek ἀμέλγω (amélgō, “I milk”), Albanian mjel (“to milk”), Russian молоко́ (molokó), Lithuanian mélžti, Tocharian A mālk-.
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