milk
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- noun
- /mɪlk/
:
leche
- She prefers almond milk over regular cow's milk.
- drink milk
- cows' milk
- breast milk
I told him cheese is made from milk and he looked sick.
- I told him cheese is made from milk and he looked sick.
- No, that's yogurt, fruit, milk and ice cream.
- I mean, it's like fruit loop milk kinda with protein.
- So you can create cheese or milk or egg proteins.
- F Merry kill whole milk, oat milk, nut milk.
- Get that milk, that milk boy ASMRASMR real quick.
Examples
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But I think I want some chocolate almond milk right now.
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I thought you only drank milk.
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Can we look for milk or something?
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You put too much milk in it.
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I am now going to fill this glass with milk.
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Before we went upstairs to bed, we had a glass of hot milk together in the kitchen.
Fiction book (1990) -
Next, add a cup of milk, three quarter cups of sugar.
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And then the other ones we have rice milk, almond milk.
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The younger the individual who drank the milk, the greater the potential risk.
Academic text (1990) -
Olive bread, eggs, syrup, milk and green olives.
Synonyms
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A sweet drink you make by mixing milk with chocolate
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Milk made by a mother to feed her baby
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A white creamy liquid made from grated coconut flesh for cooking and drinks
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A woman makes this natural food for her newborn baby after birth
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Milk from a goat used for drinking and making cheese
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A sweet thick milk with most water removed and sugar added
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A liquid from cows that people drink or use in cooking
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Milk made from ground almonds and water
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Dry milk that you mix with water to make liquid milk
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A drink made from soybeans used instead of milk
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Milk with much of its water removed and kept in a can for cooking
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A dry powder made from milk that you add to water to make milk
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A white liquid from a yak that people drink and use to make cheese
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Powdered milk you get by removing water from milk so it lasts a long time
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Milk with the water removed and left as a powder for storage
Milk made at the start of a feed that is thinner and sweeter than later milk
A white plant drink made from ground beans and water used instead of cow milk
Idioms
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To waste time being upset about something that already happened and cannot be changed
Compounds
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A tall prickly plant with purple flowers and white spots on leaves used in herbal medicine to help the liver
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A kind of milk with the fat broken into tiny pieces so cream does not rise
- Specialized
A small plant with purple flowers that grows every year on high mountain slopes
- US
A harmless tan and brown snake often with red stripes and an arrow spot on its head
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A milky liquid used to make things less acidic, for example in tanning and water treatment
- Specialized
An illness people get from drinking milk from cows that ate a poisonous plant
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A condition when the body cannot digest milk because it cannot break down milk sugar
- US
A harmless North American snake with red, black, and white bands that looks like a coral snake
A thin yellow liquid left after milk is curdled and the solids are removed to make cheese
- Archaic
Sick after eating meat or drinking milk from animals that eat poisonous plants
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Etymology
Milk comes from an old German word melk meaning 'to suck' or 'to give milk'. So the word paints the simple picture of a mother animal feeding its baby, which is why milk means the white liquid animals make to feed their young.