CREAM
\kɹˈiːm], \kɹˈiːm], \k_ɹ_ˈiː_m]\
Definitions of CREAM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the part of milk containing the butterfat
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the best people or things in a group; "the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War"
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add cream to one's coffee, for example
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remove from the surface; "skim cream from the surface of milk"
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put on cream, as on one's face or body; "She creams her face every night"
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make creamy by beating; "Cream the butter"
By Princeton University
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the part of milk containing the butterfat
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the best people or things in a group; "the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War"
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add cream to one's coffee, for example
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remove from the surface; "skim cream from the surface of milk"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface.
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A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.
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A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation.
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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.
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To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
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To furnish with, or as with, cream.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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The rich, oily part of milk; hence, the choicest part of anything; a soft cosmetic.
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To skim or take off by skimming.
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To become covered with cream or thick like cream.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The oily substance which forms on milk: the best part of anything.
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To take off the cream.
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To gather or form cream.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To skim cream from or supply cream to; be covered with cream.
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A gathering of fatty globules on the surface of milk; the choicest or best part of anything.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A thick, unctuous matter, of a yellowish-white colour, and sweet, agreeable taste, which rises to the surface of milk, if kept at rest. It is composed of butter, serum, and casein.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The fat of milk. The fat of human milk contains the glycerin ester of butyric, caproic, capric, palmitic, stearic, and oleic acids; it is relatively poor in fatty acids. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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