- milk
- [[t]mɪ̱lk[/t]]
♦♦♦milks, milking, milked1) N-UNCOUNT Milk is the white liquid produced by cows, goats, and some other animals, which people drink and use to make butter, cheese, and yoghurt.
He popped out to buy a pint of milk.
...basic foods such as meat, bread and milk.
...empty milk bottles.
2) VERB If someone milks a cow or goat, they get milk from it, using either their hands or a machine.[V n] Farm-workers milked cows by hand.
Derived words:milking N-UNCOUNT oft N n...an automatic milking machine...
The evening milking is usually done at about 7.30pm.
3) N-UNCOUNT Milk is the white liquid produced by women to feed their babies.Milk from the mother's breast is a perfect food for the human baby.
Syn:4) N-MASS Liquid products for cleaning your skin or making it softer are sometimes referred to as milks.Sales of cleansing milks, creams and gels have doubled over the past decade.
Syn:5) VERB (disapproval) If you say that someone milks something, you mean that they get as much benefit or profit as they can from it, without caring about the effects this has on other people.[V n] A few people tried to milk the insurance companies...
[V n from n] The callous couple milked money from a hospital charity to fund a lavish lifestyle.
6) → See also , condensed milk, , skimmed milk7) PHRASE (disapproval) If you think that someone's suggestions or ideas are weak or sentimental, you can say that they are milk and water. [mainly BRIT]Fryer dismisses the report as `milk and water'.
English dictionary. 2008.
