Cream

[kriːm] or [krim]

Definition

(noun.) toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin.

(noun.) the part of milk containing the butterfat.

(noun.) the best people or things in a group; 'the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War'.

(verb.) add cream to one's coffee, for example.

(verb.) put on cream, as on one's face or body; 'She creams her face every night'.

(verb.) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; 'We licked the other team on Sunday!'.

(verb.) make creamy by beating; 'Cream the butter'.

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Definition

(n.) The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained.

(n.) The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface.

(n.) A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.

(n.) A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation.

(n.) The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as, the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures.

(v. t.) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.

(v. t.) To take off the best or choicest part of.

(v. t.) To furnish with, or as with, cream.

(v. i.) To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Choice part, best part.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Marrow, pith, gist, acme

ANT:Refuse, offal, dregs, dross, garbage

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Definition

n. the oily substance which forms on milk yielding butter when churned: the best part of anything: any cream-like preparation as cold cream for the skin &c. or any dish largely made of cream or like cream as chocolate-cream ice-cream whipped-cream &c.—v.t. to take off the cream.—v.i. to gather or form cream.—ns. Cream′-cake a kind of cake filled with custard made of cream &c.; Cream′-cheese cheese made of cream.—adj. Cream′-col′oured of the colour of cream light yellow.—n. Cream′ery an establishment where butter and cheese are made from the milk supplied by a number of producers: a shop for milk butter &c.—adj. Cream′-faced pale-faced.—ns. Cream′-fruit the fruit of a creeping West African plant of the dogbane family yielding a cream-like juice; Cream′iness.—adj. Cream′-laid of a cream-colour and laid or bearing linear water-lines as if laid.—ns. Cream′-nut the Brazil nut; Cream′-slice a wooden blade for skimming cream from milk.—adjs. Cream′-wove woven of a cream-colour; Cream′y full of or like cream: gathering like cream.—Cream of tartar a white crystalline compound made by purifying argol bitartrate of potash.

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