cream, ointment, emollient
(noun) toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin
cream
(noun) the part of milk containing the butterfat
cream, pick
(noun) the best people or things in a group; “the cream of England’s young men were killed in the Great War”
cream
(verb) add cream to one’s coffee, for example
skim, skim off, cream off, cream
(verb) remove from the surface; “skim cream from the surface of milk”
cream
(verb) put on cream, as on one’s face or body; “She creams her face every night”
cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick
(verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; “We licked the other team on Sunday!”
cream
(verb) make creamy by beating; “Cream the butter”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
cream (countable and uncountable, plural creams)
The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
(standard of identity, US) The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
(standard of identity, UK) The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
(tea and coffee) A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer.
A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream.
(informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
(figuratively) The best part of something.
(medicine) A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
(vulgar, slang) Semen.
(obsolete) The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
• ream
cream (not comparable)
Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.
cream (third-person singular simple present creams, present participle creaming, simple past and past participle creamed)
To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream.
(slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
(intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate (used of either gender).
(transitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate in (clothing).
(transitive, cooking) To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
(transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
(transitive, figurative) To take off the best or choicest part of.
(transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
(intransitive) To gather or form cream.
• Carme, McRae, crame, crema, macer, recam
Source: Wiktionary
Cream (krm), n. Etym: [F. cr, perh. fr. LL. crema cteam of milk; cf. L. cremor thick juice or broth, perh. akin to cremare to burn.]
1. The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained.
2. The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface. [R.]
3. A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.
4. A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation. In vain she tries her paste and creams, To smooth her skin or hide its seams. Goldsmith.
5. The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as. the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures. Welcome, O flower and cream of knights errant. Shelton. Bavarian cream, a preparation of gelatin, cream, sugar, and eggs, whipped; -- to be eaten cold.
– Cold cream, an ointment made of white wax, almond oil, rose water, and borax, and used as a salve for the hands and lips.
– Cream cheese, a kind of cheese made from curd from which the cream has not been taken off, or to which cream has been added.
– Cream gauge, an instrument to test milk, being usually a graduated glass tube in which the milk is placed for the cream to rise.
– Cream nut, the Brazil nut.
– Cream of lime. (a) A scum of calcium carbonate which forms on a solution of milk of lime from the carbon dioxide of the air. (b) A thick creamy emulsion of lime in water.
– Cream of tartar (Chem.), purified tartar or argol; so called because of the crust of crystals which forms on the surface of the liquor in the process of purification by recrystallization. It is a white crystalline substance, with a gritty acid taste, and is used very largely as an ingredient of baking powders; -- called also potassium bitartrate, acid potassium tartrate, etc.
Cream, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Creamed (krmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Creaming.]
1. To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
2. To take off the best or choicest part of.
3. To furnish with, or as with, cream. Creaming the fragrant cups. Mrs. Whitney. To cream butter (Cooking), to rub, stir, or beat, butter till it is of a light creamy consistency.
Cream, v. i.
Definition: To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle. There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pool. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 April 2024
(noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
