CHEESE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cheese mean? 

• CHEESE (noun)
  The noun CHEESE has 2 senses:

1. a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk

2. erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States

  Familiarity information: CHEESE used as a noun is rare.

• CHEESE (verb)
  The verb CHEESE has 2 senses:

1. used in the imperative (get away, or stop it)

2. wind onto a cheese

  Familiarity information: CHEESE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEESE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("cheese" is a kind of...):

dairy product (milk and butter and cheese)

food; solid food (any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment)

Meronyms (parts of "cheese"):

cheese rind (the rind of a cheese)

Meronyms (substance of "cheese"):

curd (coagulated milk; used to make cheese)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cheese"):

triple cream; triple creme (fresh soft French cheese containing at least 72% fat)

Velveeta (trademark: soft processed American cheese)

Swiss cheese (hard pale yellow cheese with many holes from Switzerland)

string cheese (cheese formed in long strings twisted together)

ricotta (soft Italian cheese like cottage cheese)

quark; quark cheese (fresh unripened cheese of a smooth texture made from pasteurized milk, a starter, and rennet)

Parmesan (hard dry sharp-flavored Italian cheese; often grated)

Muenster (semisoft pale-yellow cheese)

mozzarella (mild white Italian cheese)

Limburger (a soft white cheese with a very strong pungent odor and flavor)

Liederkranz (a soft cheese with a strong odor and flavor)

hand cheese (any cheese originally molded by hand)

grated cheese (hard or semihard cheese grated)

Gouda; Gouda cheese (mild cream-colored Dutch cheese shaped in balls)

chevre; goat cheese (made from goats' milk)

Edam (mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls encased in a red covering)

double Gloucester (a smooth firm mild orange-red cheese)

Cheshire cheese (a mild yellow English cheese with a crumbly texture)

American cheese; Armerican cheddar; cheddar; cheddar cheese (hard smooth-textured cheese; originally made in Cheddar in southwestern England)

Camembert (rich soft creamy French cheese)

brick cheese (semisoft sweet American cheese from whole milk in a brick form)

Brie (soft creamy white cheese; milder than Camembert)

bleu; blue cheese (cheese containing a blue mold)

process cheese; processed cheese (made by blending several lots of cheese)

cottage cheese; farm cheese; farmer's cheese; pot cheese (mild white cheese made from curds of soured skim milk)

cream cheese (soft unripened cheese made of sweet milk and cream)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cheese; cheeseflower; high mallow; Malva sylvestris; tall mallow

Hypernyms ("cheese" is a kind of...):

mallow (any of various plants of the family Malvaceae)

Holonyms ("cheese" is a member of...):

genus Malva; Malva (herbs and subshrubs: mallows)

• CHEESE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used in the imperative (get away, or stop it)

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

Cheese it!

Hypernyms (to "cheese" is one way to...):

cease; discontinue; give up; lay off; quit; stop (put an end to a state or an activity)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Wind onto a cheese

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

cheese the yarn

Hypernyms (to "cheese" is one way to...):

spool (wind onto a spool or a reel)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Then she rolled the other cheese after it; and away it went, nobody knows where, down the hill.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Palmitic acid is found naturally in palm oil and palm kernel oil, as well as in butter, cheese, milk and meat.

(Palmitic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Cholecalciferol, called the ‘sunshine vitamin’ because it is naturally made by the skin on exposure to ultraviolet rays in sunlight, is also found in animal-origin foods like cheese, fish and eggs.

(Vitamin D3 boost helps treat child malnutrition, SciDev.Net)

I greedily devoured the remnants of the shepherd’s breakfast, which consisted of bread, cheese, milk, and wine; the latter, however, I did not like.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese—toasted, mostly—and woke up again, and here I were.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This, with some cheese and a salad and a bottle of old Tokay, of which I had two glasses, was my supper.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I could tell you the moon is made of green cheese and you would subscribe to the notion, at least you would not repudiate it, because I've got dollars, mountains of them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This substance may be formed during the cooking of foods that contain sodium nitrite as a preservative, including meat, fish and cheese.

(N-Nitrososarcosine, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists said eating cheese does not raise a person’s cholesterol level and could even help you lose weight.

(Scientists Say Eating Cheese Can Help Weight Loss, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

C. tyrobutyricum is present in milk and causes late-blowing defect in cheeses with high pH leading to product loss.

(Clostridium tyrobutyricum, NCI Thesaurus)