cheese

Meaning

Noun

1. (uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
2. (countable) Any particular variety of cheese.
3. (countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
4. (UK, uncountable) A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
5. (countable, uncountable) A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
6. (colloquial, uncountable) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
7. (slang, uncountable) Money.
8. (UK, countable) In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
9. (slang, uncountable) A fastball.
10. (slang, uncountable) A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
11. (countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar) Smegma.
12. (countable, uncountable) Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
13. (countable, uncountable) A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
14. (countable, uncountable) The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).
15. (countable, uncountable) 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.

Verb

1. To prepare curds for making cheese.
2. To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
3. (slang) To smile excessively, as for a camera.

Intj

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

Verb

1. (slang) To stop; to refrain from.
2. (slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".

Verb

1. (Internet, ambitransitive) To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.)
2. (slang) To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).

Synonyms

butter

🧈

stop

🛑

cheeseflower

high mallow

tall mallow

quit

cease

knock off

lees

cream

Malva sylvestris

close out

close up

cut off

detain

discontinue

dispatch

dough

end

🔚

finish

fold

go away

halt

hang on

hard cheese

kick

leave off

paper

pause

put away

put down

reel

roll

roll up

sign off

smile

😄

snuff out

stall

stay

taxi

🚕

terminate

trig

give over

pull the plug

waste

click off

teesle

man butter

abolish

abrogate

Translations

fromage

🧀

queso

🧀

Käse

🧀

formaggio

🧀

queijo

🧀

kaas

🧀

peynir

🧀

τυρί

formatge

🧀

caseus

🧀

cacio

🧀

penîr

🧀

formatge

جبن

🧀

Pronounced as (IPA)

/t͡ʃiːz/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: chese

Inherited from Old English: ċīese

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Síes

Cognate with Western Frisian: tsiis

Cognate with Dutch: kaas

Cognate with German: Käse

In summary

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 ċēse, 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”).

Sentences

He is best known for his love of cheese , especially Wensleydale , and crackers .