milk

(uncountable)A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.

Skyr is a product made of curdled milk.

2007 September 24, Chris Horseman (interviewee), Emily Harris (reporter), “Global Dairy Demand Drives Up Prices”, Morning Edition, National Public Radio […] there's going to be that much less milk available to cover any other uses. Which means whether it's liquid milk or whether it's [milk that's been turned into] cheese or yogurt, the price gets pulled up right across the board.

Đồng nghĩa: dairy milk, cowmilk, cow's milk

(broadly, uncountable)(uncountable, by extension) A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, or soy beans.

Đồng nghĩa: m*lk, mylk, non-dairy milk, plant milk

(countable, informal)An individual serving of milk.

Table three ordered three milks.

(countable, invariable)(countable or invariant) An individual portion of milk, such as found in a creamer, for tea and coffee.

I take my tea with two milks and two sugars.

I take my tea with two milk and two sugar.

(countable, uncountable)The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.

(slang, uncountable, vulgar)Semen.

(transitive)To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).

The farmer milked his cows.

(intransitive, transitive)To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.

to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows

(intransitive, rare, transitive)To secrete (milk) from the breasts or udder.

(transitive)To express a liquid from a creature.

The Australian government has a team that regularly milks various snakes for venom to use creating serums and antivenoms.

(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative) To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, a source of funds, etc.); to exploit; to take advantage of (something).

When the audience began laughing, the comedian milked the joke for more laughs.

July 21, 1877, "The Block in the Courts" in The Spectator They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock.

(of an electrical storage battery) To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation.

(transitive, vulgar)(transitive, BDSM, vulgar) To masturbate a male to ejaculation, especially for the amusement or satisfaction of the masturbator rather than the person masturbated.

Controlled milking can actually establish and consolidate a mistress’s dominance over her sub rather than diminish it.

Đồng nghĩa: masturbate