milk
♦ milk /m'ɪlk/ (milks milking milked)
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Milk is the white liquid produced by cows, goats, and some other animals, which people drink and use to make butter, cheese, and yoghurt.
He popped out to buy a pint of milk.
...basic foods such as meat, bread and milk.
2 [VERB] V n
If someone milks a cow or goat, they get milk from it, using either their hands or a machine.
Farm-workers milked cows by hand.
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Milk is the white liquid produced by women to feed their babies.
Milk from the mother's breast is a perfect food for the human baby.
4 [N-MASS]
Liquid products for cleaning your skin or making it softer are sometimes referred to as milks.
...sales of cleansing milks, creams and gels.
= lotion
5 [VERB] V n, V n from n
If you say that someone milks something, you mean that they get as much benefit or profit as they can from it, without caring about the effects this has on other people.
A few people tried to milk the insurance companies...
The callous couple milked money from a hospital charity to fund a lavish lifestyle.
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see also coconut milk, condensed milk, skimmed milk, skimmed milkbreast milk
also breast-milk
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Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.coco|nut milk
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Coconut milk is the milky juice inside coconuts.con|densed milk
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Condensed milk is very thick sweetened milk that is sold in cans.evapo|rat|ed milk
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Evaporated milk is thick sweet milk that is sold in cans.milk choco|late
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Milk chocolate is chocolate that has been made with milk. It is lighter in colour and has a creamier taste than plain chocolate.milk float (milk floats)
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A milk float is a small electric van with a roof and no sides which is used to deliver milk to people's houses. (BRIT)milk prod|uct (milk products)
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Milk products are foods made from milk, for example butter, cheese, and yoghurt.
= dairy productsmilk round (milk rounds)
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If someone has a milk round, they work as a milkman, going from house to house delivering milk. (BRIT)
Milk rounds are threatened as customers switch to buying from supermarkets.
2 [N-SING] the N
The milk round is an event that happens once a year when people from large companies visit colleges and universities and interview students who are interested in working for them. (BRIT)
He obtained his first job through the milk round.milk tooth (milk teeth)
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Your milk teeth are the first teeth that grow in your mouth, which later fall out and are replaced by a second set.milk white
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You can use milk white to describe things that are a milky white colour. (LITERARY)
Mist was rising, and trees and shrubs began to disappear in a milk-white haze.semi-skimmed milk
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Semi-skimmed milk or semi-skimmed is milk from which some of the cream has been removed. (BRIT; in AM, use one percent milk, two percent milk)skimmed milk
in AM, usually use skim milk
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Skimmed milk is milk from which the cream has been removed.two-percent milk
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Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed. (AM; in BRIT, use semi-skimmed milk)
1 [N-UNCOUNT]
Milk is the white liquid produced by cows, goats, and some other animals, which people drink and use to make butter, cheese, and yoghurt.
He popped out to buy a pint of milk.
...basic foods such as meat, bread and milk.
2 [VERB] V n
If someone milks a cow or goat, they get milk from it, using either their hands or a machine.
Farm-workers milked cows by hand.
3 [N-UNCOUNT]
Milk is the white liquid produced by women to feed their babies.
Milk from the mother's breast is a perfect food for the human baby.
4 [N-MASS]
Liquid products for cleaning your skin or making it softer are sometimes referred to as milks.
...sales of cleansing milks, creams and gels.
= lotion
5 [VERB] V n, V n from n
If you say that someone milks something, you mean that they get as much benefit or profit as they can from it, without caring about the effects this has on other people.
A few people tried to milk the insurance companies...
The callous couple milked money from a hospital charity to fund a lavish lifestyle.
6
see also coconut milk, condensed milk, skimmed milk, skimmed milkbreast milk
also breast-milk
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Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.coco|nut milk
[N-UNCOUNT]
Coconut milk is the milky juice inside coconuts.con|densed milk
[N-UNCOUNT]
Condensed milk is very thick sweetened milk that is sold in cans.evapo|rat|ed milk
[N-UNCOUNT]
Evaporated milk is thick sweet milk that is sold in cans.milk choco|late
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Milk chocolate is chocolate that has been made with milk. It is lighter in colour and has a creamier taste than plain chocolate.milk float (milk floats)
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A milk float is a small electric van with a roof and no sides which is used to deliver milk to people's houses. (BRIT)milk prod|uct (milk products)
[N-COUNT] usu pl
Milk products are foods made from milk, for example butter, cheese, and yoghurt.
= dairy productsmilk round (milk rounds)
1 [N-COUNT]
If someone has a milk round, they work as a milkman, going from house to house delivering milk. (BRIT)
Milk rounds are threatened as customers switch to buying from supermarkets.
2 [N-SING] the N
The milk round is an event that happens once a year when people from large companies visit colleges and universities and interview students who are interested in working for them. (BRIT)
He obtained his first job through the milk round.milk tooth (milk teeth)
[N-COUNT] usu pl
Your milk teeth are the first teeth that grow in your mouth, which later fall out and are replaced by a second set.milk white
[COLOUR]
You can use milk white to describe things that are a milky white colour. (LITERARY)
Mist was rising, and trees and shrubs began to disappear in a milk-white haze.semi-skimmed milk
[N-UNCOUNT]
Semi-skimmed milk or semi-skimmed is milk from which some of the cream has been removed. (BRIT; in AM, use one percent milk, two percent milk)skimmed milk
in AM, usually use skim milk
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Skimmed milk is milk from which the cream has been removed.two-percent milk
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Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed. (AM; in BRIT, use semi-skimmed milk)