CHEESE

Cheese

Cheese is a food derived from milk that is produced in a wide range of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein. It comprises proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats, or sheep. During production, the milk is usually acidified, and adding the enzyme rennet causes coagulation. The solids are separated and pressed into final form. Some cheeses have molds on the rind or throughout. Most cheeses melt at cooking temperature.

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cheese

Noun

  1. A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
  2. Any particular variety of cheese.
  3. A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
  4. That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliche, i.e. cheesy.
  5. Money.
  6. In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
  7. A fastball.
  8. A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
  9. Smegma.
  10. Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.

Verb

  1. To prepare curds for making cheese.
  2. To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To stop; to refrain from.
  2. To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
    All this waiting around is really cheesing me off.

Verb (etymology 3)

  1. To use an unsporting tactic; to repeatedly use an attack which is overpowered or difficult to counter
    You can cheese most of the game using certain exploits.
  2. To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games)
    It's not every day you can see someone defend a cheese maneuver with a planetary fortress and win the game without using a single unit.

Interjection

Say "cheese"! ... and there we are!


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