milk (milks plural & 3rd person present) (milking present participle) (milked past tense & past participle )
1 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.
2 verb If someone milks a cow or goat, they get milk from it, using either their hands or a machine.
Farm-workers milked cows by hand. V n
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.
4 n-mass Liquid products for cleaning your skin or making it softer are sometimes referred to as milks.
(=lotion)
...sales of cleansing milks, creams and gels.
5 verb 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., (disapproval)
A few people tried to milk the insurance companies... V n
The callous couple milked money from a hospital charity to fund a lavish lifestyle. V n from n
6 →
coconut milk →
condensed milk →
evaporated milk →
skimmed milk
breast milk , breast-milk
Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies. n-uncount
coconut milk
Coconut milk is the milky juice inside coconuts. n-uncount
condensed milk
Condensed milk is very thick sweetened milk that is sold in cans. n-uncount
evaporated milk
Evaporated milk is thick sweet milk that is sold in cans. n-uncount
milk chocolate
Milk chocolate is chocolate that has been made with milk. It is lighter in colour and has a creamier taste than plain chocolate. n-uncount
milk float (milk floats plural )A milk float is a small electric van with a roof and no sides which is used to deliver milk to people's houses.
(BRIT) n-count
milk product (milk products plural )Milk products are foods made from milk, for example butter, cheese, and yoghurt. n-count usu pl
(=dairy products)
milk round (milk rounds plural )
1 n-count If someone has a milk round, they work as a milkman, going from house to house delivering milk.
(BRIT)
Milk rounds are threatened as customers switch to buying from supermarkets.
2 n-sing The milk round is an event that happens once a year when people from large companies visit colleges and universities and interview students who are interested in working for them.
(BRIT) the N
He obtained his first job through the milk round.
milk tooth (milk teeth plural )Your milk teeth are the first teeth that grow in your mouth, which later fall out and are replaced by a second set. n-count usu pl
milk white
You can use milk white to describe things that are a milky white colour.
LITERARY colour
Mist was rising, and trees and shrubs began to disappear in a milk-white haze.
semi-skimmed milk
Semi-skimmed milk or semi-skimmed is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
(BRIT) n-uncount
in AM, use one percent milk, two percent milk
skimmed milk
in AM, usually use skim milk
Skimmed milk is milk from which the cream has been removed. n-uncount
two-percent milk
Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
(AM) n-uncount
in BRIT, use semi-skimmed milk
