Cheese Meaning
/t͡ʃiːz/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
nounAny particular variety of cheese.
Sentence Examples
We make milk into cheese and butter.
Milk is made into butter and cheese.
Milk can be made into butter, cheese, and many other things.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The mouse nibbled on a small piece of yellow ____ from the kitchen floor.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Would you like some extra ____ on your pepperoni pizza tonight?.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Latin cāseusbor. Proto-Germanic *kāsijaz Proto-West Germanic *kāsī Old English ċīese Middle English chese English cheese From Middle English chese, from Anglian Old English ċīese, from Proto-West Germanic *kāsī, borrowed from Latin cāseus. Doublet of queso. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Síes (“cheese”), West Frisian tsiis (“cheese”), Dutch kaas (“cheese”), German Low German Kees (“cheese”), German Käse (“cheese”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"He had a gloating expression on his face, and was perseveringly rolling a large cheese along the middle of the road."
— 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 153:
"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."
— 2015 August 26, Dominik Guggisberg et al., “Mechanism and control of the eye formation in cheese”, in International Dairy Journal, volume 47, Elsevier, →DOI, pages 118–127:
"It's time to add some cheese to this action burger! Every genre has them, everybody loves them ... it's the parodies!"
— 2012, Katrina Hill, Action Movie Freak, page 117:
"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."
— 2012 June 18, Ryan Lambie, “10 delightfully cheesy 90s sci-fi movie trailers”, in Den of Geek!, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2017:
"Apple pulp is poured into the cloth until the frame is full. The edges of the cloth are folded over the pulp forming a cloth-bound bed of apple pulp, called a 'cheese' as it resembles the European-style bound cheese. The frame is removed, a divider is placed on the 'cheese' and another 'cheese' is built on top of the first, and so on."
— 2011, P. Rutledge, “Production of Non-Fermented Fruit Products”, in D. Arthey, P.R. Ashurst, editors, Fruit Processing, →ISBN, page 77:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The mouse nibbled on a small piece of yellow ____ from the kitchen floor.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Would you like some extra ____ on your pepperoni pizza tonight?.