cream meaning
EN
[kɹiːm] [-iːm] 
US WCream
- Cream is a dairy product composed of the higher-butterfat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization. In un-homogenized milk, the fat, which is less dense, will eventually rise to the top.
- Cream skimmed from milk may be called "sweet cream" to distinguish it from whey cream skimmed from whey, a by-product of cheese-making. Whey cream has a lower fat content and tastes more salty, tangy and "cheesy".
- Cream has many culinary uses in both sweet and salty dishes.
- Cream produced by cattle (particularly Jersey cattle) grazing on natural pasture often contains some natural carotenoid pigments derived from the plants they eat; this gives the cream a slight yellow tone, hence the name of the yellowish-white color,
- NounPLcreams
- The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
- Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar …
- A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream.
- cream colour:
- (informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
- (figuratively) The best part of something.
- the cream of the crop; the cream of a collection of books or pictures
- (medicine) A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment).
- You look really sunburnt; you should apply some cream.
- (vulgar, slang) Semen.
- (obsolete) The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
- The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
- VerbSGcreamsPRcreamingPT, PPcreamed
- To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
- Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.
- To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream.
- (slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
- We creamed the opposing team!
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate (used of either gender).
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate in (clothing).
- (transitive, cooking) To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
- (transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
- (transitive, figuratively) To take off the best or choicest part of.
- (transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
- To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
- Adjective
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- There is produced, however, at this temperature a cooked taste and the cream line is reduced to a greater extent than when the milk is heated and blown at 145° F.
- Sautéed shrimp in a cream sauce of kanzuri, a combination of citrus and chili peppers, are a spicy, lightly crunchy knockout.
- Anybody who does not try the homemade ice cream is really missing out.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- He drowns his sorrows in buckets of chocolate ice cream.
- His ears perked up when he heard there would be ice cream.
- Turn the mixer on medium-high, and then do that thing professional cooks live in fear of being yelled at for: overwhip the cream!
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of cream in English Dictionary
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- Uncomparable adjectives
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "cream" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.