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Meaning of cheese | Babel Free

Noun masculine CEFR B1 Frequent
t͡ʃiːz

Definitions

  1. A surname.
  2. Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
    slang, uncountable
  3. The exploitation, or opportunity for exploitation, of an unintentional video game mechanic.
    uncountable
  4. A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
    uncountable
  5. Any particular variety of cheese.
    countable
  6. foot
  7. The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket.
    British, India, dated, slang, uncountable
  8. A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
    countable
  9. A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
    UK, uncountable
  10. A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
    countable, uncountable
  11. That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
    colloquial, uncountable
  12. Money.
    slang, uncountable
  13. In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
    UK, countable
  14. A fastball.
    slang, uncountable
  15. A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
    slang, uncountable
  16. Smegma.
    countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar
  17. Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
    countable, uncountable
  18. A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
    countable, uncountable
  19. The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).
    countable, uncountable
  20. 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.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Afrikaans kaas
አማርኛ አይብ ፎርማጆ
العربية الجبن جبن جبنة فرماج
Azərbaycanca pendir
Беларуская сыр
বাংলা পনীর
Bosanski čas grana kas kaše love sajt šer sir сир
Català formatge Lluís
Čeština chechtáky love prachy sýr
Cymraeg caws cosyn
Dansk appelsin ost
Deutsch Chääs Kaas Käs Käse Spaghetti
Ελληνικά τυρί
Esperanto fromaĝo
Español patata queso whisky
Eesti juust sõir
Euskara gazta txakoli
فارسی پنیر سیب
Gaeilge cáis
Gàidhlig càise
Galego formaxe queixo
ગુજરાતી પનીર
Hausa cuku
ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi waiūpaʻa
עברית גבינה
हिन्दी पनीर
Hrvatski čas grana kas kaše love sajt šer sir сир
Magyar csíz sajt
Հայերեն պանիր
Bahasa Indonesia keju
Íslenska ostur
Italiano cacio formaggio grana
日本語 ストレート チーズ 乾酪
ქართული ყველი
Қазақша ірімшік
한국어 건락 김치 치즈
Кыргызча иримчик
Lëtzebuergesch Kéis
Lietuvių sūris
Latviešu siers
Malagasy foromazy
Te Reo Māori tīhi
Македонски сирење
മലയാളം ചീസ്
Монгол бяслаг
Bahasa Melayu keju panir
Malti ġobon
မြန်မာဘာသာ ဒိန်ခဲ
Nederlands kaas
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਪਨੀਰ
Polski ser uśmiech
پښتو پوڅه خيدک
Português bufunfa giz grana queijo xis
Русский сыр творог
سنڌي پنير
සිංහල චීස්
Slovenčina syr
Slovenščina sir
Soomaali farmaajo jiss
Shqip djathë
Српски čas grana kas kaše love sajt šer sir сир
Svenska omelett ost
Kiswahili chizi jibini
తెలుగు జున్ను
Тоҷикӣ панир
Türkmençe peýnir
Tagalog keso
Türkçe peynir
ئۇيغۇرچە پىشلاق
Українська сир
اردو پنیر
Oʻzbekcha pishloq sir
Tiếng Việt hải phô ma phô mai pho mát
IsiXhosa itshizi
Yorùbá warakaṣi

Examples

“He had a gloating expression on his face, and was perseveringly rolling a large cheese along the middle of the road.”
“In the tomographic images of the 30-day-old cheeses, the gantry had to be removed with image processing techniques: first, the binarised image (grey level larger than 10⁴) was eroded with a disk of three pixels.”
“1807, Nutt, F. (1807). The Complete Confectioner: Or, The Whole Art of Confectionary Made Easy: Containing, Among a Variety of Useful Matter, the Art of Making the Various Kinds of Biscuits, Drops ... as Also the Most Approved Method of Making Cheeses, Puddings, Cakes &c. in 250 Cheap and Fashionable Receipts. The Result of Many Years Experience with the Celebrated Negri and Witten. United Kingdom: reprinted, for Richard Scott and sold at his bookstore, no. 243 Pearl-street. p.82-3, No.244. Damson Cheese: “Pick the damsons free from stalks···You may make plum or bullace cheese in the same way···””
“It's time to add some cheese to this action burger! Every genre has them, everybody loves them ... it's the parodies!”
“A film ostensibly about the lead singer of a hair metal band killing innocent people on a future planet Earth, Alienator is the epitome of low-budget cheese.”
“2006, US Patent 7458053, International Business Machines Corporation It is known in the art to insert features that are electrically inactive (“fill structures”) into a layout to increase layout pattern density or and to remove features from the layout (“cheese structures”) to decrease layout pattern density.”
“Apple pulp is poured into the cloth until the frame is full. The edges of the cloth are folded over the pulp forming a cloth-bound bed of apple pulp, called a 'cheese' as it resembles the European-style bound cheese. The frame is removed, a divider is placed on the 'cheese' and another 'cheese' is built on top of the first, and so on.”
“The time was morning; the young lady was not fifteen; her spirits were as the spirits of a fawn in May; her tour of duty for the day was either not come, or was gone; and, finding herself alone in a spacious room, what more reasonable thing could she do than amuse herself with making cheeses? that is, whirling round, according to a fashion practised by young ladies both in France and England, and pirouetting until the petticoat is inflated like a balloon, and then sinking into a courtesy.”
“"I thank your ladyship, I don't like tanzing, and I don't like cards," says Miss Hester, tossing up her head; and, dropping a curtsey like a "cheese," she strutted away from the Countess's table.”
“Mrs. Curzon-Bowlby, thus deserted in the middle of the room, dropped the prettiest of "cheeses," and broke into a merry peal of unaffected laughter.”
“These cheroots are the real cheese.”

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