Milk

Noun

 * 1)  A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.
 * 2) 🇺🇸 The lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows, and including the addition of limited amounts of vitamin A, vitamin D, and other carriers or flavoring ingredients identified as safe and suitable.
 * 3)  A white (or whitish) colored liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as soy beans, coconuts, almonds, rice, oats. Also called non-dairy milk.
 * 4)  An individual serving of milk.
 * Table three ordered three milks. (Formally: The guests at table three ordered three glasses of milk.)

Quotations

 * 2007 September 24, Chris Horseman (interviewee), Emily Harris (reporter), “Global Dairy Demand Drives Up Prices”, Morning Edition, National Public Radio
 * there's going to be that much less milk available to cover any other uses. Which means whether it's liquid milk or whether it's cheese or yogurt, the price gets pulled up right across the board.

Derived terms

 * almond milk


 * breast milk
 * chocolate milk
 * coconut milk
 * condensed milk
 * evaporated milk
 * flavored milk, flavoured milk
 * homogenized milk
 * milk bar
 * milk bottle
 * milk chocolate
 * milk float
 * milkmaid
 * milkman
 * milk of magnesia


 * milk pan
 * milk powder
 * milk product
 * milkshake
 * milk tooth
 * milky
 * Milky Way
 * nut milk
 * oat milk
 * rice milk
 * semi-skimmed milk
 * skimmed milk, skim milk
 * soy milk
 * whole milk

Verb

 * 1)  To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).
 * The farmer milked his cows.
 * 1)  To express any liquid (from any creature).
 * 2)  To talk or write at length about (a particular point).
 * 3)  To take advantage of (a situation).
 * When the audience began laughing, the comedian milked the joke for more laughs.

Derived terms

 * milk it

Adjectives for Milk
tepid; acidophilus;  skimmed;  innocent; pulpy; metabolized; putrid; sour.

Verbs for Milk
absorb—; administer—; churn—; concen¬trate—; condense—; contaminate—; curdle —; deprive of—; dilute—; draw—; extract from—; flavor—; pasteurize—; predigest—; rear on—; sip—; skim—; sour—; subsist on—; substitute—; taint—; thicken—; wean on—; —nourishes; —sustains.

Thesaurus
abridge, abuse, alabaster, bed, bed down, bereave, beverage, bleed, bleed white, blood, break, bridle, broach, brush, butter, buttermilk, certified milk, chalk, cheese, chyle, colostrum, condensed milk, cream, curry, currycomb, curtail, cut off, dairy products, decant, declaim, denude, deplume, deprive, deprive of, despoil, discharge, disentitle, displume, divest, draft, draft off, drain, draw, draw from, draw off, draw out, drench, drink, driven snow, dry, ease one of, elicit, empty, evince, evoke, exact, exhaust, exploit, extort, extract, feed, flay, fleece, flour, fluid, fluid extract, fluid mechanics, foam, fodder, gentle, ghee, gleet, grimace, groom, half-and-half, ham, ham it up, handle, harness, heavy cream, hitch, humor, hydraulics, hydrogeology, ichor, ill-use, impose upon, impoverish, ivory, juice, lachryma, lactation, lacteal, lacteous, lactescent, lactic, lactiferous, latex, let, let blood, let out, leukorrhea, light cream, lighten one of, lily, liquid, liquid extract, liquor, litter, lymph, maggot, make use of, manage, manipulate, margarine, matter, milch, milky, mine, misuse, mucor, mucus, mug, mulct, nonfat dry milk, oleo, oleomargarine, out-herod Herod, overact, overdramatize, paper, pearl, peccant humor, phlebotomize, phlegm, pick clean, pipette, play on, pluck, presume upon, pump, pump out, purulence, pus, rant, raw milk, rheum, roar, rook, rub down, saddle, saliva, sanies, sap, semiliquid, serous fluid, serum, shear, sheet, silver, siphon off, skim milk, skin, snot, snow, sour cream, spout, stick, strip, strip bare, stroke, suck, suck dry, suck out, suppuration, swan, sweat, take advantage of, take away from, take from, tame, tap, tear, teardrop, tend, the whites, throw away, train, underact, urine, use, use ill, venesect, water, whey, whipping cream, withdraw, work on, work upon, wring, yogurt, yoke

Etymology
From meolc:; compare Danish mælk:, Dutch melk:, West Frisian molke:, German Milch:, Norwegian melk:/mjølk, Swedish mjölk:, Yiddish מילך:. Polish mleko:

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