name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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name
A surname.
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noun
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.
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Usage: uncountable
Synonyms: dairy milk, cowmilk, cow's milk
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noun
A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, or soy beans.
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Usage: broadly, uncountable
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Synonyms: m*lk, mylk, non-dairy milk, plant milk
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noun
An individual serving of milk.
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Usage: countable, informal
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noun
An individual portion of milk, such as found in a creamer, for tea and coffee.
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Usage: countable, invariable
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noun
The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Semen.
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Usage: slang, uncountable, vulgar
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verb
To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.
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Usage: intransitive, transitive
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verb
To secrete (milk) from the breasts or udder.
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Usage: intransitive, rare, transitive
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verb
To express a liquid from a creature.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, a source of funds, etc.); to exploit; to take advantage of (something).
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Usage: figuratively, transitive
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verb
To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation.
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verb
To masturbate a male to ejaculation, especially for the amusement or satisfaction of the masturbator rather than the person masturbated.
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Usage: transitive, vulgar
Topics: BDSM, lifestyle, sexuality
Synonyms: masturbate
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noun
produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young
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Broader terms: liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour, nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, alimentation, victuals
Narrower terms: mother's milk, colostrum, foremilk
noun
a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
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Broader terms: dairy product, beverage, drink, drinkable, potable
Narrower terms: sour milk, pasteurized milk, cows' milk, yak's milk, goats' milk, acidophilus milk, raw milk, scalded milk, homogenized milk, certified milk, powdered milk, dry milk, dried milk, milk powder, evaporated milk, condensed milk, skim milk, skimmed milk, semi-skimmed milk, whole milk, low-fat milk, buttermilk, chocolate milk
noun
any of several nutritive milklike liquids
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Broader terms: foodstuff, food product
Narrower terms: coconut milk, coconut water, coconut cream, soya milk, soybean milk, soymilk, formula
noun
a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River
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Synonyms: Milk River
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Broader terms: river
verb
take milk from female mammals
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Broader terms: draw, take out
Narrower terms: strip
verb
add milk to
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Broader terms: add
verb
exploit as much as possible
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Broader terms: exploit, tap
History
From Middle English milk, mylk, melk, mulc, from Old English meolc, meoluc (“milk”), from Proto-West Germanic *meluk (“milk”), from Proto-Germanic *meluks (“milk”), from Proto-Indo-European *h2melǵ- (“milk, to milk”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian molke (“milk”), Dutch melk (“milk”), Dutch Low Saxon melk (“milk”), German Milch (“milk”), German Low German Melk (“milk”), Yiddish מילך (milkh, “milk”), Danish mælk (“milk”), Faroese and Icelandic mjólk (“milk”), Norn *mjølk (“milk”), Norwegian Bokmål melk, mjølk (“milk”), Norwegian Nynorsk mjølk (“milk”), Swedish mjölk (“milk”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌺𐍃 (miluks, “milk”), Greek αμέλγω (amélgo, “to milk”), Albanian mjel (“to milk”), Latvian malks, Lithuanian malkas, Belarusian малако́ (malakó, “milk”), Bulgarian мля́ко (mljáko, “milk”), Czech mléko, Macedonian мле́ко (mléko, “milk”), Polish mleko (“milk”), Russian and Ukrainian молоко́ (molokó, “milk”), Serbo-Croatian mlijéko (“milk”), Slovak mlieko (“milk”), Slovene mlẹ́ko (“milk”), Welsh blith, Tocharian A malke.
From Middle English milken, from Old English melcan, from Proto-Germanic *melkaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h2melǵ-, the same root as the noun. Compare Dutch and German melken, Danish malke, Norwegian mjølke, also Latin mulgeō (“to milk”), Ancient Greek ἀμέλγω (amélgō, “to milk”), Albanian mjel (“to milk”), Russian молоко́ (molokó), Lithuanian mélžti, Tocharian A mālk-.
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