cheese

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.

2. 2

   Any particular variety of cheese.

3. 3

   A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.

   • He had a gloating expression on his face, and was perseveringly rolling a large cheese along the middle of the road.
   • In the tomographic images of the 30-day-old cheeses, the gantry had to be removed with image processing techniques: first, the binarised image (grey level larger than 10⁴) was eroded with a disk of three pixels.
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   1. 4

      A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety…

      A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)

   2. 5

      A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese

   3. 6

      That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.

      • It's time to add some cheese to this action burger! Every genre has them, everybody loves them ... it's the parodies!
      • A film ostensibly about the lead singer of a hair metal band killing innocent people on a future planet Earth, Alienator is the epitome of low-budget cheese.
   4. 7

      Money.

   5. 8

      In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.

   6. 9

      A fastball.

   7. 10

      A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting…

      A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.

   8. 11

      Smegma.

   9. 12

      Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.

   10. 13

       A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.

   11. 14

       The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or…

       The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).

   12. 15

       A low curtsey

       A low curtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.

       • "I thank your ladyship, I don't like tanzing, and I don't like cards," says Miss Hester, tossing up her head; and, dropping a curtsey like a "cheese," she strutted away from the Countess's table.
       • Mrs. Curzon-Bowlby, thus deserted in the middle of the room, dropped the prettiest of "cheeses," and broke into a merry peal of unaffected laughter.
   13. 16

       To prepare curds for making cheese.

   14. 17

       To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.

   15. 18

       To smile excessively, as for a camera.

       • Yeah, a couple homegirls cheese they little faces off / They happy cause they finally got they braces off
       • Now Kunihiko sprinted back up the stairs. Exploded through the bar with three sacks of convenience store chicken, cheesing from ear to ear.
   16. 19

       Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.

       • Say "cheese"! ... and there we are!
   17. 20

       Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.

   18. 21

       The correct thing, of excellent quality

       The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket.

       • These cheroots are the real cheese.
   19. 22

       To stop

       To stop; to refrain from.

       • Cheese it! The cops!
       • Cheese your patter! (= stop talking, shut up)
   20. 23

       To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".

       • All this waiting around is really cheesing me off.
   21. 24

       The exploitation, or opportunity for exploitation, of an unintentional video game…

       The exploitation, or opportunity for exploitation, of an unintentional video game mechanic.

   22. 25

       To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.)

       • You can cheese most of the game using certain exploits.
       • The moral of the story is, real strategy doesn't apply in WH40K. Find out where your opponent cheesed himself up and hit him there with everything you've got.
   23. 26

       To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the…

       To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).

   24. 27

       A surname.

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• synonymmoney
• synonymcheese
• synonymfromage
• synonymgamebreaking
• antonymfillantonym(s) of “circuitry”
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