单词 | milk |
释义 | Word Frequency milk(mɪlk) noun 1. a. a whitish nutritious fluid produced and secreted by the mammary glands of mature female mammals and used for feeding their young until weaned b. the milk of cows, goats, or other animals used by humans as a food or in the production of butter, cheese, etc ▶ Related adjectives: lacteal, lactic2. any similar fluid in plants, such as the juice of a coconut 3. any of various milklike pharmaceutical preparations, such as milk of magnesia 4. cry over spilt milk verb 5. to draw milk from the udder of (a cow, goat, or other animal) 6. (intransitive) (of cows, goats, or other animals) to yield milk 7. (transitive) to draw off or tap in small quantities to milk the petty cash 8. (transitive) to extract as much money, help, etc, as possible from to milk a situation of its news value 9. (transitive) to extract venom, sap, etc, from Word origin Old English milc; compare Old Saxon miluk, Old High German miluh, Old Norse mjolk |
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