CHEESE

cheese

(noun) a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk

cheese

(verb) wind onto a cheese; “cheese the yarn”

cheese

(verb) used in the imperative (get away, or stop it); “Cheese it!”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Cheese (plural er-noun or Cheeses)

A surname.

Etymology 1

Noun

cheese (countable and uncountable, plural cheeses)

(uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.

(countable) Any particular variety of cheese.

(countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.

(uncountable, colloquial) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.

(uncountable, slang) Money.

(countable, UK) In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.

(uncountable, slang, baseball) A fastball.

(uncountable, slang) A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.

(vulgar, slang) Smegma.

(technology) Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.

A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.

The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).

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.

Synonyms

• (money): See Thesaurus:money

Antonyms

• (circuitry): fill (“dummy pattern to increase pattern density”)

Hyponyms

• (dairy product): See Thesaurus:cheese

Verb

cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)

To prepare curds for making cheese.

(technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.

(slang) To smile excessively, as for a camera.

Interjection

cheese!

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

Etymology 2

Noun

cheese (uncountable)

(slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.

(slang, dated, British India) The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket.

Etymology 3

Verb

cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)

(slang) To stop; to refrain from.

(slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".

Etymology 4

Verb

cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)

(video games) To use an unsporting tactic; to repeatedly use an attack which is overpowered or difficult to counter.

(video games) 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

• (use a surprise all-in strategy early in a game): rush, zerg

Source: Wiktionary

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Cheese, n. Etym: [OE. chese, AS. cese, fr. L. caseus, LL. casius. Cf. Casein.]

1. The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.

2. A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed togehter in the form of a cheese.

3. The flat, circuliar, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia). [Colloq.]

4. A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration. De Quincey. Thackeray. Cheese cake, a cake made of or filled with, a composition of soft curds, sugar, and butter. Prior.

– Cheese fly (Zoöl.), a black dipterous insect (Piophila casei) of which the larvæ or maggots, called ckippers or hoppers, live in cheese.

– Cheese mite (Zoöl.), a minute mite (Tryoglyhus siro) in cheese and other articles of food.

– Cheese press, a press used in making cheese, to separate the whey from the curd, and to press the curd into a mold.

– Cheese rennet (Bot.), a plant of the Madder family (Golium verum, or yellow bedstraw), sometimes used to coagulate milk. The roots are used as a substitute for madder.

– Cheese vat, a vat or tub in which the curd is formed and cut or broken, in cheese making.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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