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单词 milk
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milknoun [ U ]

uk/mɪlk/us/mɪlk/

A1 the white liquid produced by cows, goats, and sheep and used by humans as a drink or for making butter, cheese, etc.:

a glass/carton of milk
cow's/goat's milk
skimmed/pasteurized milk
a milk bottle

the white liquid produced by women and other female mammals as food for their young:

Breast/Mother's milk is the best nourishment for a baby.

the white liquid produced by some plants and trees:

coconut milk

More examples

  • Do you take milk in your tea?
  • Don't use up all the milk, we need some for breakfast.
  • Add two cupfuls of milk to the mixture.
  • Don't forget to put the milk back in the fridge.
  • Antibodies from the mother's milk line the baby's intestines and prevent infection.

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Dairy products & eggs

  • albumen
  • butter
  • buttermilk
  • buttery
  • clotted cream
  • dried milk
  • egg
  • egg white
  • egg yolk
  • evaporated milk
  • frittata
  • light cream
  • pasteurize
  • semi-skimmed
  • single cream
  • skimmed milk
  • whipping cream
  • whole milk
  • yogurt
  • yolk

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Animal physiology: bodily fluids & their production
Parts of plants

Idiom(s)

the milk of human kindness

milkverb

uk/mɪlk/us/mɪlk/

milk verb (GET MILK)

[ I or T ] to get milk from an animal:

Milking a cow by hand is a skilled process.
Some goats seem to milk (= produce milk) better than others.

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Animal farming - general words

  • abattoir
  • animal husbandry
  • aquaculture
  • battery
  • bedding
  • beekeeper
  • bluetongue
  • draught
  • heeler
  • herd
  • honeycomb
  • lambing season
  • nectar
  • pen
  • raise
  • rear
  • shepherd
  • slaughterhouse
  • stable
  • wean

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milk verb (GET MONEY/INFORMATION)

[ T ] disapproving to get as much money or information out of someone or something as possible, often in an unfair or dishonest way:

[ + obj + adj ] The newspapers milked the story dry.
The directors milked the company of several million dollars.

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Removing and extracting

  • ablate
  • clear the decks idiom
  • cream sth/sb off
  • descale
  • dislodge
  • extract
  • gouge
  • pull
  • pull (sb/sth) out
  • pull a gun, knife, etc. on sb idiom
  • pump
  • pump out sth
  • removable
  • remove
  • root
  • scoop
  • scratch
  • siphon
  • syphon
  • take sth away

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