Definitions for cheese

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Spelling: [cheez]

IPA: /tʃiz/

Cheese is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in cheese (ceeehs).

Definitions for cheese

noun

1. the curd of milk separated from the whey and prepared in many ways as a food.
2. a definite mass of this substance, often in the shape of a wheel or cylinder.
3. something of similar shape or consistency, as a mass of pomace in cider-making.
4. Informal. partly digested milk curds sometimes spit up by infants.
5. cheeses, any of several mallows, especially Malva neglecta, a sprawling, weedy plant having small lavender or white flowers and round, flat, segmented fruits thought to resemble little wheels of cheese.
6. Slang: Vulgar. smegma.
7. Metalworking. a transverse section cut from an ingot, as for making into a tire. an ingot or billet made into a convex, circular form by blows at the ends.
8. a low curtsy.
9. a person or thing that is important or splendid.

Idioms

1. cheese it, look out! run away!

verb (used with object)

1. (in a game, especially a video game) to win (a battle round) by using a strategy that requires minimal skill and knowledge or that exploits a glitch or flaw in game design:
2. Metalworking. to forge (an ingot or billet) into a cheese.
3. to stop; desist.

verb (used without object)

1. Informal. (of infants) to spit up partly digested milk curds.

Origin of cheese

before 1000; Middle English chese, Old English cēse (cognate with Old Saxon kāsi, German Käse) Latin cāseus

Examples for cheese

Allow half a pound of butter to a pound of maccaroni and half a pound of cheese.

I remember them coming over all adorable with mac and cheese, collard greens, fried chicken.

Mix the cream and salt with the cheese and shape into balls.

The way in which this may be done depends on the nature of the cheese.

Even more damnably, Mother Courage has the chance to save her son Swiss cheese from the firing squad by paying a ransom.

Mixing meat and dairy is a kosher rule-breaker, so they switched the cheese for potatoes.

It will then turn out so firm that you may cut it into slices like cheese.

Is the peculiar flavour of the cheese due to this non-drinking habit?

Players stopped downing chili dogs or cheese fries before games.

Before serving, bake the cheese packages, combine the salad and vinaigrette, and serve.