milk
noun/mɪlk/
[uncountable]Слово англійською: milk
Переклад milk українською: молоко
Детальний опис
- the white liquid produced by cows, goats and some other animals as food for their young and used as a drink by humans
- a pint/litre of milk
- a bottle/carton of milk
- She drank a glass of cool frothy milk.
- fresh/dried/powdered milk
- Do you take milk in your tea?
- milk products (= butter, cheese, etc.)
- milk production/prices
- I am allergic to cow's milk.
- (British English) full-fat/semi-skimmed/skimmed milk (= milk with none/some/most of the fat removed)
- (North American English) Shall I get skim milk or 2%?
- the white liquid that is produced by women and female mammals for feeding their babies
- breast milk
- Mammals rely on mother's milk for nutrition and immune protection.
- She expressed some milk so her husband could do the night feeding.
- (in compounds) a white liquid produced by or made from plants see also almond milk, coconut milk, oat milk, soya milk
Word OriginOld English milc, milcian, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch melk and German Milch, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin mulgere and Greek amelgein ‘to milk’.
Idioms
cry over spilt milk (British English)
(US English cry over spilled milk)
- to waste time worrying about something that has happened that you cannot do anything about
- As the saying goes—it's no use crying over spilt milk.
the land of milk and honey
- a place where life is pleasant and easy and people are very happy
- He dreamed of emigrating to Canada—the land of milk and honey.
the milk of human kindness
- (literary) kind behaviour, considered to be natural to humans