cheese
To prepare curds for making cheeseTo prepare curds for making cheese.
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» I like butter better than cheese.
Я більше люблю масло, ніж сир. — deniko
Мені більше подобається масло, ніж сир. — deniko
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
7 sensesTo prepare curds for making cheese.
wind onto a cheese
To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
(slang)To smile excessively, as for a camera.
(slang)To stop; to refrain from.
Cheese it! The cops!
Cheese your patter! (= stop talking, shut up)
used in the imperative (get away, or stop it)
(slang)To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
All this waiting around is really cheesing me off.
(Internet, ambitransitive)To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.)
You can cheese most of the game using certain exploits.
(slang)To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).
Examples
798 sentencesI like butter better than cheese.
Я більше люблю масло, ніж сир. — deniko
There is no more cheese left.
Сиру більше не лишилося. — deniko
ruСыра больше нет. — nina99nv
We don't have any more cheese.
У нас закінчився сир. — deniko
ruУ нас сыр закончился. — marafon
I would like to buy some cheese.
Я хотів би купити сиру. — deniko
ruЯ бы хотел купить немного сыра. — odexed
deIch möchte gerne Käse kaufen. — mayabe
This cheese needs to be thrown out.
Цей сир треба викинути. — Ahha
ruЭтот сыр нужно выбросить. — Wezel
Origin
From Middle English chese, from Anglian Old English ċēse, from Proto-West Germanic *kāsī,From Middle English chese, from Anglian Old English ċēse, from Proto-West Germanic *kāsī, borrowed from Latin cāseus. Doublet of queso.
From cheesy.
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Forms
cheeses, cheesing, cheesed, cheesedPhrasal verbs
4 phrasal verbs- cheese offдістати, отримуватиTo annoy.
- cheese upTo add cheese to; make cheesy or cheesier.
- cheese outTo make (something) cheesy (overdramatic, trite); to make (something) less cool, especially by making it more mainstream.
- cheese downTo coil the tail of a rope on deck so as to present a neat appearance.
Synonyms
3 synonymsWord family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Food and drink — Because the lesson uses it
- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
Collocations
12 patterns- kind of cheese
- goat cheese
- cheese sandwich
- how much cheese
- buy some cheese
- ham and cheese
- and cheese sandwich
- like cheese
- some cheese
- much cheese did
- cheese is made
- eat cheese
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.